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 Southport:
39.659986, -86.117114
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 Southport
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 seventeen communities that are also named Southport.
There is one other community in Indiana that is also named Southport.
Beyond Indiana, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Indiana ...
Owen County
This Southport is located in Owen County and lies 43 miles [69.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Southport.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Yolo 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 California community of Southport [Yolo County].
Connecticut
Fairfield County
This Southport is located in Fairfield County and lies 681 miles [1,096 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfield County community of Southport.
Florida
Bay County
This Southport is located in Bay County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km]<1> to the south of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bay County community of Southport.
Illinois
Peoria County
This Southport is located in Peoria County and lies 214 miles [344.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Peoria County community of Southport.
Louisiana
Jefferson Parish
This Southport is located in Jefferson Parish and lies 707 miles [1,137.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson Parish community of Southport.
Maine
Lincoln County
This Southport is located in Lincoln County and lies 893 miles [1,437.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Southport.
Manitoba
This Southport lies 923 miles [1,485.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
Michigan
Monroe 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 Southport [Monroe County].
New York
Chemung County
This Southport is located in Chemung County and lies 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chemung County community of Southport.
Suffolk County
This Southport is located in Suffolk County and lies 719 miles [1,157.1 km] to the east of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Southport.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Southport lies 1,702 miles [2,739.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
North Carolina
Brunswick County
This Southport is located in Brunswick County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Southport.
Oregon
Coos County
This Southport is located in Coos County and lies 1,969 miles [3,168.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coos County community of Southport.
Prince Edward Island
This Southport lies 1,242 miles [1,998.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
Tennessee
Maury County
This Southport is located in Maury County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the south of the Southport that is located in Marion County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Southport.
Virginia
Prince William 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 Virginia community of Southport [Prince William County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southport ...
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 city such as Southport to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southport and extending to:
Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 487 miles [783.8 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Southport to White House, with an average speed<4>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 19 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,231 miles [10,027.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,960 miles [11,201 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,838 miles [7,786 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Southport) 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 Southport 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Southport 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 Southport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6600, Longitude: -86.1171 In this case, the coordinates for Southport have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.45 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.89 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.477 degrees.