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 Mount Auburn:
42.375097, -71.149498
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 Mount Auburn
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 eleven communities that are also named Mount Auburn.
Within Massachusetts, the name Mount Auburn is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Christian County
This Mount Auburn is located in Christian County and lies 957 miles [1,540.1 km]<1> to the west of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Christian County community of Mount Auburn.
Indiana
Franklin County
This Mount Auburn is located in Franklin County and lies 757 miles [1,218.3 km]<1> to the west of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Mount Auburn.
Shelby County
This Mount Auburn is located in Shelby County and lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km] to the west of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Mount Auburn.
Wayne County
This Mount Auburn is located in Wayne County and lies 750 miles [1,207 km] to the west of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Mount Auburn.
Iowa
Benton County
This Mount Auburn is located in Benton County and lies 1,066 miles [1,715.6 km]<1> to the west of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Mount Auburn.
Kansas
Johnson 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 Mount Auburn [Johnson County].
Kentucky
Pendleton County
This Mount Auburn is located in Pendleton County and lies 730 miles [1,174.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pendleton County community of Mount Auburn.
Nova Scotia
This Mount Auburn lies 567 miles [912.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
Ohio
Athens County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Athens County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Athens County community of Mount Auburn.
Butler 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 Ohio community of Mount Auburn [Butler County].
Hamilton County
This Mount Auburn is located in Hamilton County and lies 732 miles [1,178 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mount Auburn that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Mount Auburn.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mount Auburn ...
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 Mount Auburn to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mount Auburn and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 390 miles [627.6 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Mount Auburn 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 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,507 miles [8,862.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
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).<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- Mount Auburn) 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 Mount Auburn 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 Mount Auburn, 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 Mount Auburn 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 Mount Auburn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3751, Longitude: -71.1495 In this case, the coordinates for Mount Auburn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.027 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.632 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.604 degrees.