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 Creekwood:
39.877263, -86.118876
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 Creekwood
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 twelve communities that are also named Creekwood.
Within Indiana, the name Creekwood is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Creekwood is located in Lauderdale County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Creekwood.
Mobile County
This Creekwood is located in Mobile County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km] to the south southwest of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Creekwood.
Georgia
Camden County
This Creekwood is located in Camden County and lies 674 miles [1,084.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Creekwood.
Coweta County
This Creekwood is located in Coweta County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km] to the south of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coweta County community of Creekwood.
Illinois
Will County
This Creekwood is located in Will County and lies 155 miles [249.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Creekwood.
North Carolina
Craven County
This Creekwood is located in Craven County and lies 594 miles [956 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Creekwood.
Davie County
This Creekwood is located in Davie County and lies 407 miles [655 km] to the southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davie County community of Creekwood.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Creekwood is located in Anderson County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Creekwood.
Lexington County
This Creekwood is located in Lexington County and lies 487 miles [783.8 km] to the southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lexington County community of Creekwood.
Tennessee
Bedford County
This Creekwood is located in Bedford County and lies 305 miles [490.8 km]<1> to the south of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Creekwood.
Blount County
This Creekwood is located in Blount County and lies 308 miles [495.7 km] to the south southeast of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Creekwood.
Rutherford County
This Creekwood is located in Rutherford County and lies 281 miles [452.2 km] to the south of the Creekwood that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Creekwood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Creekwood ...
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 Creekwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Creekwood and extending to:
Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies just to the south southwest (SSW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 489 miles [787 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Creekwood to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 28 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,951 miles [11,186.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,829 miles [7,771.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Creekwood) 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 Creekwood 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 Creekwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8773, Longitude: -86.1189 In this case, the coordinates for Creekwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.452 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.923 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.416 degrees.