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 Auburndale:
42.347922, -71.247354
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 Auburndale
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 seven communities that are also named Auburndale.
Within Massachusetts, the name Auburndale is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Polk County
This Auburndale is located in Polk County and lies 1,149 miles [1,849.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Auburndale that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Auburndale.
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 Auburndale [Shawnee County].
Kentucky
Jefferson County
This Auburndale is located in Jefferson County and lies 817 miles [1,314.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Auburndale that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Auburndale.
New York
Queens 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 New York community of Auburndale [Queens County].
Nova Scotia
This Auburndale lies 362 miles [582.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Auburndale that is located in Middlesex County.
Ohio
Lucas County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Auburndale [Lucas County].
Wisconsin
Wood County
This Auburndale is located in Wood County and lies 951 miles [1,530.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Auburndale that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Auburndale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Auburndale ...
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 community such as Auburndale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Auburndale and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Auburndale to Boston, with an average speed<4> 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.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 385 miles [619.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,512 miles [8,870.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,219 miles [10,008.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,096 miles [6,591.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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- Auburndale) 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 Auburndale 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>
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 Auburndale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Auburndale 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 Auburndale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3479, Longitude: -71.2474
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.09 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.697 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.661 degrees.