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 Maple Ridge:
39.678101, -86.286102
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 Maple Ridge
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 fifteen communities that are also named Maple Ridge.
Within Indiana, the name Maple Ridge is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Maple Ridge lies 1,881 miles [3,027.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
Georgia
Gwinnett County
This Maple Ridge is located in Gwinnett County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Maple Ridge.
Illinois
Cook County
This Maple Ridge is located in Cook County and lies 187 miles [300.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Maple Ridge.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Maple Ridge is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 513 miles [825.6 km]<1> to the east of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Maple Ridge.
Massachusetts
Norfolk County
This Maple Ridge is located in Norfolk County and lies 789 miles [1,269.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk County community of Maple Ridge.
Michigan
Arenac County
This Maple Ridge is located in Arenac County and lies 331 miles [532.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arenac County community of Maple Ridge.
Delta 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 Michigan community of Maple Ridge [Delta County].
Minnesota
Isanti 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 Minnesota community of Maple Ridge [Isanti County].
New Brunswick
This Maple Ridge lies 1,058 miles [1,702.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
Ohio
Mahoning County
This Maple Ridge is located in Mahoning County and lies 288 miles [463.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mahoning County community of Maple Ridge.
Ontario
This Maple Ridge lies 534 miles [859.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
Pennsylvania
Somerset County
This Maple Ridge is located in Somerset County and lies 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the east of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Maple Ridge.
Quebec
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 Quebec community of Maple Ridge.
South Carolina
Berkeley County
This Maple Ridge is located in Berkeley County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Maple Ridge that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Maple Ridge.
Wisconsin
Douglas 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 Wisconsin community of Maple Ridge [Douglas County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Maple Ridge ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Maple Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Maple Ridge and extending to:
Indianapolis, which is the Seat of Marion County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Maple Ridge 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 northeast (NE). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 497 miles [799.8 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 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,237 miles [10,037.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,967 miles [11,212.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,844 miles [7,795.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Maple Ridge) 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 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 Maple Ridge 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 Maple Ridge 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 Maple Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6781, Longitude: -86.2861 In this case, the coordinates for Maple Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.559 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.016 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.551 degrees.