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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 Adel:
40.531395, -93.669111
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.
We found eight communities that share the name Adel.
Within Missouri, the name Adel is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
In addition to the above occurrences of Adel, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Cook County
This Adel is located in Cook County and lies 864 miles [1,390.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Adel.
Indiana
Owen County
This Adel is located in Owen County and lies 375 miles [603.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Adel.
Iowa
Dallas County
This Adel is located in Dallas County and lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of Adel.
Montana
Cascade County
This Adel is located in Cascade County and lies 998 miles [1,606.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cascade County community of Adel.
Oklahoma
Pushmataha County
This Adel is located in Pushmataha County and lies 424 miles [682.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pushmataha County community of Adel.
Oregon
Lake County
This Adel is located in Lake County and lies 1,358 miles [2,185.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Adel.
Texas
Lavaca County
This Adel is located in Lavaca County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Adel that is located in Mercer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lavaca County community of Adel.
Communities Beyond North America ...
England
Distance: 4,103 miles [6,603.1 km]<1> to the northeast
Curious and Interesting Names Near Adel ...
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.
Big Spring ‑ Historic (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 community such as Adel to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Adel and extending to:
Princeton, which is the Seat of Mercer County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Adel to Princeton, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 889 miles [1,430.7 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,466 miles [10,406 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,212 miles [11,606.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,104 miles [8,214.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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- Adel) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Adel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5314, Longitude: -93.6691 In this case, the coordinates for Adel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Adel to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.48 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.782 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.917 degrees.