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 Wellington:
42.411081, -71.084890
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 Wellington
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 36 communities that are also named Wellington.
Within Massachusetts, the name Wellington is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of 36 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 36 communities, 31 are located in the United States and eight are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Calhoun County
This Wellington is located in Calhoun County and lies 996 miles [1,602.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Wellington.
British Columbia
This Wellington lies 2,536 miles [4,081.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
Colorado
Larimer County
This Wellington is located in Larimer County and lies 1,744 miles [2,806.7 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Larimer County community of Wellington.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Wellington is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,180 miles [1,899 km]<1> to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Wellington.
Palm Beach County
This Wellington is located in Palm Beach County and lies 1,204 miles [1,937.7 km] to the south southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Palm Beach County community of Wellington.
Georgia
Fulton County
This Wellington is located in Fulton County and lies 951 miles [1,530.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Wellington.
Muscogee County
This Wellington is located in Muscogee County and lies 1,019 miles [1,639.9 km] to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Wellington.
Illinois
Iroquois County
This Wellington is located in Iroquois County and lies 866 miles [1,393.7 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iroquois County community of Wellington.
Indiana
Marion County
This Wellington is located in Marion County and lies 801 miles [1,289.1 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Wellington.
Kansas
Sumner County
This Wellington is located in Sumner County and lies 1,433 miles [2,306.2 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of Wellington.
Kentucky
Jefferson County
This Wellington is located in Jefferson County and lies 819 miles [1,318.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Wellington.
Menifee County
This Wellington is located in Menifee County and lies 724 miles [1,165.2 km] to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Menifee County community of Wellington.
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Wellington is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 1,378 miles [2,217.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Wellington.
Maine
Piscataquis County
This Wellington is located in Piscataquis County and lies 196 miles [315.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piscataquis County community of Wellington.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Wellington is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 365 miles [587.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Wellington.
Somerset County
This Wellington is located in Somerset County and lies 378 miles [608.3 km] to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Wellington.
Michigan
Crawford 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 Wellington [Crawford County].
Gogebic County
This Wellington is located in Gogebic County and lies 953 miles [1,533.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gogebic County community of Wellington.
Minnesota
Renville 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 Minnesota community of Wellington [Renville County].
Missouri
Lafayette County
This Wellington is located in Lafayette County and lies 1,214 miles [1,953.7 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lafayette County community of Wellington.
Nevada
Lyon County
This Wellington is located in Lyon County and lies 2,510 miles [4,039.5 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyon County community of Wellington.
Nye County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Nye County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nye County community of Wellington.
Newfoundland and Labrador
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 Newfoundland and Labrador community of Wellington.
Nova Scotia
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 Nova Scotia community of Wellington.
Ohio
Lorain County
This Wellington is located in Lorain County and lies 579 miles [931.8 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lorain County community of Wellington.
Ontario
This Wellington lies 332 miles [534.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
Pennsylvania
Lehigh County
This Wellington is located in Lehigh County and lies 257 miles [413.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lehigh County community of Wellington.
Prince Edward Island
This Wellington lies 446 miles [717.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
South Carolina
Aiken County
This Wellington is located in Aiken County and lies 851 miles [1,369.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of Wellington.
South Dakota
Minnehaha 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 South Dakota community of Wellington [Minnehaha County].
Texas
Collingsworth County
This Wellington is located in Collingsworth County and lies 1,646 miles [2,649 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collingsworth County community of Wellington.
Harris County
This Wellington is located in Harris County and lies 1,594 miles [2,565.3 km] to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Wellington.
Utah
Carbon County
This Wellington is located in Carbon County and lies 2,057 miles [3,310.4 km]<1> to the west of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carbon County community of Wellington.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Wellington is located in Fairfax County and lies 402 miles [647 km]<1> to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Wellington.
Prince William County
This Wellington is located in Prince William County and lies 421 miles [677.5 km] to the southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Wellington.
West Virginia
Roane County
This Wellington is located in Roane County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Wellington that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Wellington.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wellington ...
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 Wellington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wellington and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Wellington 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 5,503 miles [8,856.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,210 miles [9,994 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,086 miles [6,575.8 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wellington) 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 Wellington 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 Wellington, 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 Wellington 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 Wellington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4111, Longitude: -71.0849
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.983 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.588 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.556 degrees.