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 Ellington:
37.236486, -90.972041
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 Ellington
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 Reynolds County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Ellington.
Within Missouri, the name Ellington is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
Tolland County
This Ellington is located in Tolland County and lies 1,033 miles [1,662.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Ellington that is located in Reynolds County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tolland County community of Ellington.
Illinois
Adams 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 Illinois community of Ellington [Adams County].
Iowa
Hancock 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 Iowa community of Ellington [Hancock County].
Kentucky
Cumberland County
This Ellington is located in Cumberland County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the east of the Ellington that is located in Reynolds County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Ellington.
Louisiana
Saint Charles Parish
This Ellington is located in Saint Charles Parish and lies 507 miles [815.9 km]<1> to the south of the Ellington that is located in Reynolds County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Charles Parish community of Ellington.
Michigan
Tuscola County
This Ellington is located in Tuscola County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ellington that is located in Reynolds County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscola County community of Ellington.
Minnesota
Dodge 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 Ellington [Dodge County].
New York
Chautauqua County
This Ellington is located in Chautauqua County and lies 716 miles [1,152.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Ellington that is located in Reynolds County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chautauqua County community of Ellington.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ellington ...
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 city such as Ellington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ellington and extending to:
Centerville, which is the Seat of Reynolds County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Ellington to Centerville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 113 miles [181.9 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 765 miles [1,231.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 30 days and walking would take 44 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,535 miles [10,517.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,268 miles [11,696.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,147 miles [8,283.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ellington) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Ellington 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>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Ellington 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 Ellington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2365, Longitude: -90.9720 In this case, the coordinates for Ellington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.513 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.073 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.313 degrees.