Top 6 smileys you will find on Google Maps
All of us use them, most of us daily. We are, of course, talking about the smiley or emoji. We use them when we text and write online. But did you know that there are a couple of smileys that you can watch on Google maps?
The most famous and maybe the coolest is the Oregon smiley, also known as the Oregon smiley face trees. But there are a lot of other smileys on Google earth as well.
This article will look at the six most famous smileys on Google Maps. You will get the coordinates so that you can look them up yourself as well! Ready? Let’s put a smile on your face; we mean map! 😃+ 🗺️
Fun facts about the smiley
Before we take a look at the top 6 emojis you will find on Google maps, we want to share some fun facts about the history of the smiley.
Did you know:
- That the first smiley was printed by accident in the New York Times in 1862?
- That the first intentional smiley was printed in the satirical magazine Puck in 1881?
- That the Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita wanted a simple way of conveying his messages, so he created the first set of 176 emojis you could use on your phone?
A big thank you to mysmiley.net for helping us and sharing their image with us: https://www.mysmiley.net/first-emoji.html
We want to thank the team at mysmiley.net for sharing the information and the image with us. Be sure to check them out if you need cool new emojis or old-school smileys!
Now it is time to take a closer look at the best smileys on Google maps. Let’s go!
Top 6 smileys you will find on Google Maps.
We have added the coordinates to quickly find the smileys on Google Maps. All you need to do is to copy the coordinates and paste them into the search box on Google maps. Don’t forget to change to the satellite image as well!
1. The Chelyabinsk smiley in Russia
Chelyabinsk is a city in west-central Russia close to the border of Kazakhstan. It is known for the regional museum, which displays a meteor that exploded over the city in 2013. Maybe that is the reason why the people in Chelyabinsk decided to make a smiley consisting of the city inhabitants, telling other meteors that they are friendly.
Unfortunately, it is not visible on Google maps today. Still, luckily for you, we managed to get an old screenshot of the smiley.
Coordinates: 55°09’35.4″N 61°24’09.6″E
2. Water tower smiley, Calumet Illinois
The second smiley is not only a smiley but a water tower smiley! Over the years, this smiley has had different colors from pink (supporting the live strong movement) to yellow! On Google Maps, we can only see the top of the head and the eyes, but because of its unique style, we had to include it in our list.
Coordinates: 41°35’43.0″N 87°33’08.1″W
3. Pootatuck State Forest in Connecticut, U.S.
The second smiley is not only a smiley but a water tower smiley! Over the years, this smiley has had different colors from pink (supporting the live strong movement) to yellow! On Google Maps, we can only see the top of the head and the eyes, but because of its unique style, we had to include it in our list.
Coordinates: 41°35’43.0″N 87°33’08.1″W
4. Smiley on the field in Cambridge, Ontario Canada
Our fourth smiley is hidden in a pasture outside Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. We can’t determine if this is a crop circle made by aliens or if someone on earth might be trying to communicate with extraterrestrials (and people like us watching strange things on Google Maps). 👽 Still, we do know that it looks pretty cool!
Coordinates: 43°25’44.8″N 80°19’51.1″W
5. The Oregon smiley face trees
Our second to the last smiley is the most famous and maybe most ambitious one. It is the Oregon smiley face trees smiley! In the Douglas fir forest located in Polk County, Oregon, you will find a smiley made entirely by trees. It was planted in 2011 by David Hampton and Dennis Creel, and each autumn, the larch trees that the smiley consist of turn yellow while the surrounding trees, eyes, and mouth stay green. This creates an awesome smiley seen from the road that will be around for at least 30 to 50 years. If you travel to Oregon, the best time to see the smiley is in the autumn from the Hampton Lumber Smiley Face Safe Roadside Viewpoint.
At the moment, Google maps don’t show an image from the autumn, so the smiley might be a bit hard to see on Google maps but don’t worry, we got you covered with our own images:
Coordinates: 45°02’28.3″N 123°31’15.1″W
Coordinates viewpoint: 45.050553, -123.525266
6. Willowridge in Toronto, Canada ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Last but not least, we go back north of the U.S. border back to Canada. Here we have a hidden gem near the International airport in Toronto. This smiley is a classic smiley meaning “I dunno” or “I don’t know.” It is basically a Japanese shrug of the shoulders smiley consisting of the Japanese symbol tsu: ツ surrounded by two parentheses, underscore, forward and backslash (depending on side) and upperscore, also known as an overline forming a smiley shrugging its shoulders.
Coordinates: 43°40’36.5″N 79°34’32.1″W
If you have any tips for more smileys on Google maps or Google earth, please let us know because there might be some that we have missed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Also, don’t forget to check out our other articles like Top 10 Creepy Google Maps Coordinates and Top 10 Funniest Google Maps Street View Photos.
In the top view, you can see the area as luscious red lips of a human. In reality, it is a hill formation that can be found in Gharb, Darfur, Sudan. If you have a wild imagination, you may think that it may swallow its surrounding area and everything on it. It may contain a black hole and you don’t know where it will end. Thus, it can be a bit creepy if you think about it.
Aside from accidents on land, there are also some in the sea that leads to sinking ships. In North Sentinel Island, South Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, you will see the largest shipwreck noticeable on Google. It is the S.S. Jassim, which is a 265-feet Bolivian cargo ferry that ran ashore and sank on the Wingate Reef in 2003. People can’t really visit the place since it is the home of a dangerous tribe. According to reports, the island is almost the size of Manhattan but never had an outside contact. Furthermore, the tribe killed two fishermen when they went in the area.
The area contains etches of two large diamonds surrounded by a pair of overlapping circles. An author named John Sweeney said that it was a marker for the hidden bunkers for the Church of Scientology. The symbols are used by Scientologists as a guide after escaping a planetary “Armageddon” and returning to Earth.
The image was discovered back in 2007 and people are quick to point out that there is a strange triangle dotted with bright lights in the middle of the field. People who believe in aliens quickly stated that it was a UFO hovering above Earth. However, some argued that it can be a remote-controlled wind farm with three sets of wires forming a triangle and the middle part receives and transmits control signals.
It was 2012 when an ‘undiscovered’ island popped up on maps. It was called as Sandy Island located in the northwest of New Caledonia and has a size of Manhattan. However, when a group of scientists sailed in the area, they never found a solid ground but open water instead. They explained that it might be due to human errors or a possible pumice raft.
If you are exploring the streets of Nancy, France, you might get curious about a blurred area. Good thing that people are quick to take a screenshot as evidence. It turns out that there is a creepy-looking statue in the apartment. It looked like a tall, corpse-like statue with messy hair and white, large eyes. Some say that it is just a tiki statue but why does Google need to blur the area out in the Maps?
Located in the 5,000 foot high Colleto Fava Mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region is a 200-foot bunny. If you are exploring the area, you might freak out with its humongous size and creepy face. This rabbit is an art installation knitted by Gelitin, a Viennese art collective. The outdoor sculpture’s purpose is to let tourists play with it by climbing and sleeping on it.
This is a small village located in Shikoku, Japan. What makes it creepy are the dolls located all over the place, which are made by an old lady. According to reports, once a person dies, she replaces them with a doll. Another creepy thing is that you won’t see these dolls in the same place but the old lady denies moving these dolls.
If you watched or played “Silent Hill”, you will get the shock of your life when you see the images of this area in Google street view. It looks like a nightmare with twisted buildings and shadowy figures, which is very similar to “Silent Hill”. However, it was later revealed that it was a technical problem that resulted in distorted images of the entire road. Though it was already cleared, the area still feels creepy because you can’t ‘un-see’ the previous images.
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