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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 Citrus Hills:
33.379212, -112.042369
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 two communities that share the name Citrus Hills.
Within Arizona, the name Citrus Hills is unique.
Beyond Arizona, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Citrus County
This Citrus Hills is located in Citrus County and lies 1,771 miles [2,850.1 km]<1> to the east of the Citrus Hills that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Citrus County community of Citrus Hills.
Texas
Hidalgo County
This Citrus Hills is located in Hidalgo County and lies 959 miles [1,543.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Citrus Hills that is located in Maricopa County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hidalgo County community of Citrus Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Citrus Hills ...
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.
Bronze Boot (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bronze Boot have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Citrus Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Citrus Hills and extending to:
Phoenix, which is the State Capital of Arizona, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,976 miles [3,180.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Citrus Hills to White House, with an average speed<4>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 78 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,450 miles [11,989.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,215 miles [13,220.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,153 miles [9,902.3 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Citrus Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Citrus Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3792, Longitude: -112.0424 In this case, the coordinates for Citrus Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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.
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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.
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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 Citrus Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.123 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.883 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 322.158 degrees.