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 East Arlington:
42.404263, -71.146720
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 East Arlington
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 four communities that are also named East Arlington.
Within Massachusetts, the name East Arlington is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This East Arlington is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 1,094 miles [1,760.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the East Arlington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of East Arlington.
Nova Scotia
This East Arlington lies 344 miles [553.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the East Arlington that is located in Middlesex County.
Vermont
Bennington County
This East Arlington is located in Bennington County and lies 110 miles [177 km]<1> to the west northwest of the East Arlington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bennington County community of East Arlington.
Virginia
Arlington 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 Virginia community of East Arlington [Arlington County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near East Arlington ...
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 East Arlington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in East Arlington and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 392 miles [630.9 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from East Arlington 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 6,213 miles [9,998.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,089 miles [6,580.6 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Arlington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 East Arlington, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 East Arlington 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 East Arlington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4043, Longitude: -71.1467 In this case, the coordinates for East Arlington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.021 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.63 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.587 degrees.