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 Beaver Crossing:
47.242110, -91.524614
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 Beaver Crossing
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 Lake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Beaver Crossing.
Within Minnesota, the name Beaver Crossing is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, .
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
This Beaver Crossing lies 947 miles [1,524 km]<1> to the northwest of the Beaver Crossing that is located in Lake County.
Nebraska
Seward County
This Beaver Crossing is located in Seward County and lies 529 miles [851.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Beaver Crossing that is located in Lake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Seward County community of Beaver Crossing.
Quebec
This Beaver Crossing lies 833 miles [1,340.6 km]<1> to the east of the Beaver Crossing that is located in Lake County.
South Dakota
Lawrence County
This Beaver Crossing is located in Lawrence County and lies 631 miles [1,015.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Beaver Crossing that is located in Lake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Beaver Crossing.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Beaver Crossing ...
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 Beaver Crossing to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Beaver Crossing and extending to:
Two Harbors, which is the Seat of Lake County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Beaver Crossing to Two Harbors, 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.
Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 174 miles [280 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 928 miles [1,493.5 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 53 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,051 miles [9,738.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,807 miles [10,954.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,722 miles [7,599.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Beaver Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Beaver Crossing 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 Beaver Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.2421, Longitude: -91.5246
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.029 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.029 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.026 degrees.