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 Empire City:
37.089228, -94.641894
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 Empire City
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 Cherokee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Empire City.
There is one other community in Kansas that is also named Empire City.
Beyond Kansas, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Kansas ...
Greenwood 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 Kansas community of Empire City [Greenwood County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Idaho
Owyhee County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Empire City [Owyhee County].
Minnesota
Dakota 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 Minnesota community of Empire City [Dakota County].
Nevada
Ormsby County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Ormsby County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ormsby County community of Empire City.
Oklahoma
Stephens County
This Empire City is located in Stephens County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<3> to the southwest of the Empire City that is located in Cherokee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stephens County community of Empire City.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Empire City ...
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.
Airport Drive (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
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 Empire City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Empire City and extending to:
Columbus, which is the Seat of Cherokee County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Empire City to Columbus, with an average speed<5> 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.
Topeka, which is the State Capital of Kansas, lies 146 miles [235 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 964 miles [1,551.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,679 miles [10,748.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,419 miles [11,939.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,303 miles [8,534.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
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 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 Empire City 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>
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 Empire City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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- Empire City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Empire City 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 Empire City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0892, Longitude: -94.6419 In this case, the coordinates for Empire City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.936 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.861 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.056 degrees.