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 Pine Lake:
42.395927, -71.453674
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 Pine Lake
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 sixteen communities that are also named Pine Lake.
Within Massachusetts, the name Pine Lake is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
This Pine Lake lies 2,047 miles [3,294.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Pine Lake is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,164 miles [1,873.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Pine Lake.
Georgia
Clarke County
This Pine Lake is located in Clarke County and lies 873 miles [1,405 km]<1> to the southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Pine Lake.
DeKalb County
This Pine Lake is located in DeKalb County and lies 910 miles [1,464.5 km] to the southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of Pine Lake.
Harris County
This Pine Lake is located in Harris County and lies 993 miles [1,598.1 km] to the southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Pine Lake.
Indiana
LaPorte 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 Indiana community of Pine Lake [LaPorte County].
Michigan
Allegan 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 Michigan community of Pine Lake [Allegan County].
Ingham County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pine Lake [Ingham County].
Oakland County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pine Lake [Oakland County].
Mississippi
Simpson County
This Pine Lake is located in Simpson County and lies 1,240 miles [1,995.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Simpson County community of Pine Lake.
Nebraska
Lancaster County
This Pine Lake is located in Lancaster County and lies 1,299 miles [2,090.5 km]<1> to the west of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Pine Lake.
New York
Fulton 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 Pine Lake [Fulton County].
South Carolina
Richland County
This Pine Lake is located in Richland County and lies 773 miles [1,244 km]<1> to the southwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Pine Lake.
Texas
Montgomery 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 Pine Lake [Montgomery County].
Washington
King County
This Pine Lake is located in King County and lies 2,452 miles [3,946.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Pine Lake.
Wisconsin
Iron County
This Pine Lake is located in Iron County and lies 958 miles [1,541.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pine Lake that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iron County community of Pine Lake.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pine Lake ...
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 Pine Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pine Lake and extending to:
Cambridge, which is the Seat of Middlesex County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Pine Lake to Cambridge, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 20 miles [32.2 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 379 miles [609.9 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,519 miles [8,882 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,227 miles [10,021.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,103 miles [6,603.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Pine Lake) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Pine Lake 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 Pine Lake 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 Pine Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3959, Longitude: -71.4537 In this case, the coordinates for Pine Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.206 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.837 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.73 degrees.