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 Cimarron:
33.387546, -111.992090
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.
We found ten communities that share the name Cimarron.
Within Arizona, the name Cimarron is unique.
Beyond Arizona, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Kings County
This Cimarron is located in Kings County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kings County community of Cimarron.
Colorado
Elbert County
This Cimarron is located in Elbert County and lies 581 miles [935 km]<1> to the northeast of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elbert County community of Cimarron.
Montrose County
This Cimarron is located in Montrose County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km] to the north northeast of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montrose County community of Cimarron.
Kansas
Ford 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 Cimarron [Ford County].
Gray County
This Cimarron is located in Gray County and lies 720 miles [1,158.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gray County community of Cimarron.
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 Cimarron [Sedgwick County].
New Mexico
Colfax County
This Cimarron is located in Colfax County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colfax County community of Cimarron.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma community of Cimarron [Oklahoma County].
Texas
Harris County
This Cimarron is located in Harris County and lies 985 miles [1,585.2 km]<1> to the east of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Cimarron.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Cimarron is located in Salt Lake County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the north of the Cimarron that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Cimarron.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cimarron ...
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.
Dusk File (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dusk File have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cimarron to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cimarron and extending to:
Phoenix, which is the State Capital of Arizona, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,973 miles [3,175.2 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Cimarron to White House, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take three full days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 113 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 77 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,449 miles [11,988 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,213 miles [13,217.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,151 miles [9,899.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cimarron) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cimarron. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3875, Longitude: -111.9921 In this case, the coordinates for Cimarron have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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 Cimarron 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Cimarron to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.085 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.837 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 322.131 degrees.