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 Devonshire:
39.880595, -86.058874
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 Devonshire
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 thirteen communities that are also named Devonshire.
Within Indiana, the name Devonshire is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
San Mateo County
This Devonshire is located in San Mateo County and lies 1,945 miles [3,130.2 km]<1> to the west of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Mateo County community of Devonshire.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Devonshire is located in New Castle County and lies 557 miles [896.4 km]<1> to the east of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Devonshire.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Devonshire is located in Clayton County and lies 446 miles [717.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Devonshire.
Fulton County
This Devonshire is located in Fulton County and lies 443 miles [712.9 km] to the south of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Devonshire.
Paulding County
This Devonshire is located in Paulding County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km] to the south of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Devonshire.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Devonshire [Cook County].
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Devonshire is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 504 miles [811.1 km]<1> to the east of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Devonshire.
New Jersey
Atlantic County
This Devonshire is located in Atlantic County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the east of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Atlantic County community of Devonshire.
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
This Devonshire is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 432 miles [695.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Devonshire.
Ontario
This Devonshire lies 668 miles [1,075 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Devonshire is located in Anderson County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Devonshire.
York County
This Devonshire is located in York County and lies 436 miles [701.7 km] to the southeast of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Devonshire.
Virginia
Prince William County
This Devonshire is located in Prince William County and lies 471 miles [758 km]<1> to the east of the Devonshire that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Devonshire.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Devonshire ...
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 community such as Devonshire to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Devonshire and extending to:
Indianapolis, which is the Seat of Marion County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Devonshire to Indianapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest (SW). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 486 miles [782.1 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,219 miles [10,008.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,948 miles [11,181.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,826 miles [7,766.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 from Point A (ie- Devonshire) 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 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 Devonshire 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>
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.
<4>
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 Devonshire 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 Devonshire. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8806, Longitude: -86.0589 In this case, the coordinates for Devonshire have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.413 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.879 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.387 degrees.