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 Saint Leo:
44.717335, -96.052516
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 Saint Leo
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 Yellow Medicine County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Saint Leo.
Within Minnesota, the name Saint Leo is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Pasco County
This Saint Leo is located in Pasco County and lies 1,361 miles [2,190.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Saint Leo that is located in Yellow Medicine County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pasco County community of Saint Leo.
Kansas
Kingman County
This Saint Leo is located in Kingman County and lies 511 miles [822.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Saint Leo that is located in Yellow Medicine County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kingman County community of Saint Leo.
West Virginia
Monongalia County
This Saint Leo is located in Monongalia County and lies 874 miles [1,406.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Saint Leo that is located in Yellow Medicine County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of Saint Leo.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Saint Leo ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Saint Leo to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Saint Leo and extending to:
Granite Falls, which is the Seat of Yellow Medicine County, lies 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Saint Leo to Granite Falls, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 145 miles [233.4 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,054 miles [1,696.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 42 days and walking would take 60 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,325 miles [10,179.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,083 miles [11,399 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,000 miles [8,046.7 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Saint Leo) 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 Saint Leo 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 Saint Leo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.7173, Longitude: -96.0525 In this case, the coordinates for Saint Leo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.282 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.392 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.236 degrees.