Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Kalamazoo:
35.368142, -93.694638
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Kalamazoo
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Logan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Kalamazoo.
Within Arkansas, the name Kalamazoo is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Volusia County
This Kalamazoo is located in Volusia County and lies 861 miles [1,385.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Kalamazoo that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Volusia County community of Kalamazoo.
Kansas
Decatur County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kalamazoo [Decatur County].
Kingman County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kalamazoo [Kingman County].
Sedgwick County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kalamazoo [Sedgwick County].
Michigan
Kalamazoo County
This Kalamazoo is located in Kalamazoo County and lies 645 miles [1,038 km]<1> to the northeast of the Kalamazoo that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalamazoo County community of Kalamazoo.
Nebraska
Madison County
This Kalamazoo is located in Madison County and lies 494 miles [795 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Kalamazoo that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Kalamazoo.
West Virginia
Barbour County
This Kalamazoo is located in Barbour County and lies 799 miles [1,285.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Kalamazoo that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barbour County community of Kalamazoo.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Kalamazoo ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Kalamazoo to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Kalamazoo and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Kalamazoo to Little Rock, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 947 miles [1,524 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,733 miles [10,835.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,467 miles [12,017 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,345 miles [8,601.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kalamazoo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Kalamazoo could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Kalamazoo to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kalamazoo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3681, Longitude: -93.6946 In this case, the coordinates for Kalamazoo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.162 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.738 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.903 degrees.