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 Rising Sun:
37.406996, -88.578104
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 Rising Sun
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 Pope County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Rising Sun.
There is one other community in Illinois that is also named Rising Sun.
Beyond Illinois, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Illinois ...
White County
This Rising Sun is located in White County and lies 50 miles [80.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Rising Sun.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Kent County
This Rising Sun is located in Kent County and lies 717 miles [1,153.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Rising Sun.
Indiana
Ohio County
This Rising Sun is located in Ohio County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ohio County community of Rising Sun.
Iowa
Polk County
This Rising Sun is located in Polk County and lies 389 miles [626 km]<1> to the northwest of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Rising Sun.
Kansas
Jefferson County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Jefferson County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Rising Sun.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Rising Sun is located in Carroll County and lies 633 miles [1,018.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Rising Sun.
Cecil County
This Rising Sun is located in Cecil County and lies 693 miles [1,115.3 km] to the east northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cecil County community of Rising Sun.
Mississippi
Leflore County
This Rising Sun is located in Leflore County and lies 287 miles [461.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Leflore County community of Rising Sun.
Montana
Glacier County
This Rising Sun is located in Glacier County and lies 1,470 miles [2,365.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glacier County community of Rising Sun.
Pennsylvania
Lehigh County
This Rising Sun is located in Lehigh County and lies 731 miles [1,176.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lehigh County community of Rising Sun.
Texas
Shackelford County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rising Sun [Shackelford County].
Wisconsin
Crawford County
This Rising Sun is located in Crawford County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Rising Sun that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Rising Sun.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rising Sun ...
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 Rising Sun to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rising Sun and extending to:
Golconda, which is the Seat of Pope County, lies just to the East Southeast.
Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 173 miles [278.4 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Rising Sun to Springfield, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 634 miles [1,020.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,435 miles [10,356.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,163 miles [11,527.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,039 miles [8,109.5 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rising Sun) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Rising Sun, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Rising Sun 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.
<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 Rising Sun 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 Rising Sun. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4070, Longitude: -88.5781 In this case, the coordinates for Rising Sun have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.976 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.324 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.185 degrees.