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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 Cherokee Park:
38.595100, -90.216900
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 Cherokee Park
Waymarking ...
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We found five communities that are also named Cherokee Park.
Within Missouri, the name Cherokee Park is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Cherokee Park is located in Muscogee County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Cherokee Park.
Ohio
Butler County
This Cherokee Park is located in Butler County and lies 309 miles [497.3 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Cherokee Park.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Cherokee Park is located in Blount County and lies 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Cherokee Park.
Davidson County
This Cherokee Park is located in Davidson County and lies 251 miles [403.9 km] to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Cherokee Park.
Hamblen County
This Cherokee Park is located in Hamblen County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km] to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Cherokee Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cherokee Park ...
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 Cherokee Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cherokee Park and extending to:
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 105 miles [169 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Cherokee Park to Jefferson City, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 709 miles [1,141 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,439 miles [10,362.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,174 miles [11,545.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,054 miles [8,133.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Cherokee Park) 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.
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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 Cherokee Park 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 Cherokee Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5951, Longitude: -90.2169 In this case, the coordinates for Cherokee Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.084 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.763 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.665 degrees.