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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 Keenes:
38.339224, -88.642826
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 one communities that are also named Keenes.
Within Illinois, the name Keenes is unique.
Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named Keenes in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New York
Saint Lawrence County
This Keenes is located in Saint Lawrence County and lies 791 miles [1,273 km]<1> to the northeast of the Keenes that is located in Wayne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Lawrence County community of Keenes.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Keenes ...
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 village such as Keenes to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Keenes and extending to:
Fairfield, which is the Seat of Wayne County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Keenes to Fairfield, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 113 miles [181.9 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 626 miles [1,007.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,392 miles [10,286.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,123 miles [11,463.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,001 miles [8,048.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Keenes) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Keenes 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 Keenes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3392, Longitude: -88.6428
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.05 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.539 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.993 degrees.