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 Castleton:
39.906983, -86.052207
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 Castleton
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 Marion County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Castleton.
Within Indiana, the name Castleton is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Gunnison County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Castleton [Gunnison County].
Illinois
Kankakee County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Castleton [Kankakee County].
Stark County
This Castleton is located in Stark County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Castleton.
Kansas
Reno County
This Castleton is located in Reno County and lies 655 miles [1,054.1 km]<2> to the west of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Reno County community of Castleton.
Maryland
Harford County
This Castleton is located in Harford County and lies 521 miles [838.5 km]<2> to the east of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Castleton.
New York
Rensselaer County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Castleton [Rensselaer County].
Ontario
This Castleton lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
South Dakota
Pennington County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Castleton [Pennington County].
Utah
Grand County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Castleton [Grand County].
Vermont
Rutland County
This Castleton is located in Rutland County and lies 709 miles [1,141 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutland County community of Castleton.
Virginia
Rappahannock County
This Castleton is located in Rappahannock County and lies 434 miles [698.5 km]<2> to the east of the Castleton that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rappahannock County community of Castleton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Castleton ...
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 town such as Castleton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Castleton and extending to:
Indianapolis, which is the Seat of Marion County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Castleton to Indianapolis, with an average speed<4> 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.
Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 11 miles [17.7 km] to the south southwest (SSW). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 485 miles [780.5 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 28 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,217 miles [10,005.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,947 miles [11,180.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,825 miles [7,765.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Castleton 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.
<2>
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 from Point A (ie- Castleton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Castleton, 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 Castleton 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 Castleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9070, Longitude: -86.0522 In this case, the coordinates for Castleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.409 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.878 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.376 degrees.