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 Spaulding:
30.412182, -81.774824
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 Spaulding
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 Duval County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Spaulding.
Within Florida, the name Spaulding is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Spaulding is located in Jefferson County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Spaulding.
Illinois
Cook County
This Spaulding is located in Cook County and lies 876 miles [1,409.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Spaulding.
Sangamon County
This Spaulding is located in Sangamon County and lies 785 miles [1,263.3 km] to the north northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sangamon County community of Spaulding.
Iowa
Union County
This Spaulding is located in Union County and lies 1,021 miles [1,643.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Spaulding.
Louisiana
Caldwell Parish
This Spaulding is located in Caldwell Parish and lies 623 miles [1,002.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell Parish community of Spaulding.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Spaulding is located in Aroostook County and lies 1,346 miles [2,166.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Spaulding.
Michigan
Menominee 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 Spaulding [Menominee County].
Minnesota
Todd County
This Spaulding is located in Todd County and lies 1,273 miles [2,048.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Todd County community of Spaulding.
Missouri
Ralls 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 Missouri community of Spaulding [Ralls County].
Nebraska
Greeley County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Greeley County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greeley County community of Spaulding.
Oklahoma
Hughes County
This Spaulding is located in Hughes County and lies 908 miles [1,461.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hughes County community of Spaulding.
Texas
Hidalgo 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 Texas community of Spaulding [Hidalgo County].
West Virginia
Logan 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 West Virginia community of Spaulding [Logan County].
Mingo County
This Spaulding is located in Mingo County and lies 516 miles [830.4 km]<1> to the north of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mingo County community of Spaulding.
Wisconsin
Jackson County
This Spaulding is located in Jackson County and lies 1,071 miles [1,723.6 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Spaulding that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Spaulding.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Spaulding ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Spaulding to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Spaulding and extending to:
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 149 miles [239.8 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Spaulding to Tallahassee, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 644 miles [1,036.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 37 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,477 miles [10,423.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,156 miles [11,516.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,047 miles [8,122.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Spaulding) 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 Spaulding 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Spaulding, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Spaulding 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 Spaulding. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4122, Longitude: -81.7748 In this case, the coordinates for Spaulding have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.62 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.326 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.125 degrees.