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 Arlington Heights:
42.420374, -71.180055
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 Arlington Heights
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 Middlesex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nineteen communities that are also named Arlington Heights.
Within Massachusetts, the name Arlington Heights is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Arlington Heights is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,586 miles [4,161.8 km]<1> to the west of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Arlington Heights.
Connecticut
New Haven County
Although located in New Haven County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Arlington Heights.
Florida
Duval 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 Florida community of Arlington Heights [Duval County].
Hillsborough County
This Arlington Heights is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,180 miles [1,899 km]<1> to the southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Arlington Heights.
Illinois
Cook County
This Arlington Heights is located in Cook County and lies 857 miles [1,379.2 km]<1> to the west of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Arlington Heights.
Sangamon County
This Arlington Heights is located in Sangamon County and lies 972 miles [1,564.3 km] to the west of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sangamon County community of Arlington Heights.
Kansas
Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Arlington Heights [Shawnee County].
Kentucky
Franklin 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 Kentucky community of Arlington Heights [Franklin County].
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Arlington Heights is located in Hamilton County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Arlington Heights.
Trumbull County
This Arlington Heights is located in Trumbull County and lies 510 miles [820.8 km] to the west of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trumbull County community of Arlington Heights.
Washington County
This Arlington Heights is located in Washington County and lies 575 miles [925.4 km] to the west southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Arlington Heights.
Pennsylvania
Monroe County
This Arlington Heights is located in Monroe County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Arlington Heights.
Texas
Harris County
This Arlington Heights is located in Harris County and lies 1,596 miles [2,568.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Arlington Heights.
Nueces County
This Arlington Heights is located in Nueces County and lies 1,786 miles [2,874.3 km] to the west southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nueces County community of Arlington Heights.
Tarrant 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 Texas community of Arlington Heights [Tarrant County].
Utah
Weber County
This Arlington Heights is located in Weber County and lies 2,079 miles [3,345.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Arlington Heights.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Arlington Heights is located in Arlington County and lies 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Arlington Heights.
Lynchburg City
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 Arlington Heights [Lynchburg City].
Washington
Snohomish County
This Arlington Heights is located in Snohomish County and lies 2,456 miles [3,952.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Arlington Heights that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Arlington Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Arlington Heights ...
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 Arlington Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Arlington Heights and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Arlington Heights to White House, with an average speed<3>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 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,506 miles [8,861 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,090 miles [6,582.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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- Arlington Heights) 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 Arlington Heights 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 Arlington Heights 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 Arlington Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4204, Longitude: -71.1801 In this case, the coordinates for Arlington Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.039 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.652 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.594 degrees.