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 Sierra Vista:
34.095287, -118.158405
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 Sierra Vista
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 Los Angeles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Sierra Vista.
There are two communities within California that are also named Sierra Vista.
Beyond California, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In California ...
Madera County
This Sierra Vista is located in Madera County and lies 242 miles [389.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sierra Vista that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madera County community of Sierra Vista.
Merced 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 California community of Sierra Vista [Merced County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Cochise County
This Sierra Vista is located in Cochise County and lies 490 miles [788.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sierra Vista that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cochise County community of Sierra Vista.
Colorado
Jefferson County
This Sierra Vista is located in Jefferson County and lies 820 miles [1,319.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sierra Vista that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Sierra Vista.
Pueblo 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 Colorado community of Sierra Vista [Pueblo County].
New Mexico
Lincoln County
This Sierra Vista is located in Lincoln County and lies 716 miles [1,152.3 km]<1> to the east of the Sierra Vista that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Sierra Vista.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sierra Vista ...
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 Sierra Vista to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sierra Vista and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 360 miles [579.4 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Sierra Vista to Sacramento, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,287 miles [3,680.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 130 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,562 miles [12,169.9 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 8,331 miles [13,407.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,320 miles [10,171.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Sierra Vista) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Sierra Vista 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 Sierra Vista 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 Sierra Vista. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0953, Longitude: -118.1584 In this case, the coordinates for Sierra Vista have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.175 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 336.067 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.583 degrees.