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 Kings Corner:
41.944541, -72.602311
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 Kings Corner
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 Hartford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Kings Corner.
Within Connecticut, the name Kings Corner is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Larimer County
This Kings Corner is located in Larimer County and lies 1,681 miles [2,705.3 km]<1> to the west of the Kings Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Larimer County community of Kings Corner.
Idaho
Canyon County
This Kings Corner is located in Canyon County and lies 2,204 miles [3,547 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Kings Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Canyon County community of Kings Corner.
Michigan
Mason 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 Michigan community of Kings Corner [Mason County].
Montcalm County
This Kings Corner is located in Montcalm County and lies 639 miles [1,028.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Kings Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montcalm County community of Kings Corner.
Mississippi
Panola County
This Kings Corner is located in Panola County and lies 1,074 miles [1,728.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Kings Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Panola County community of Kings Corner.
Virginia
James City County
This Kings Corner is located in James City County and lies 387 miles [622.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Kings Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the James City County community of Kings Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Kings Corner ...
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 & 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 Kings Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Kings Corner and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Kings Corner to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 313 miles [503.7 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,585 miles [8,988.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,293 miles [10,127.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,169 miles [6,709.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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- Kings Corner) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Kings Corner 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 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.
<4>
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 Kings Corner 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 Kings Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9445, Longitude: -72.6023 In this case, the coordinates for Kings Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.959 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.608 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.47 degrees.