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 Huddleston:
36.727558, -91.424860
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 Huddleston
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 Oregon County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Huddleston.
Within Missouri, the name Huddleston is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Montgomery County
This Huddleston is located in Montgomery County and lies 200 miles [321.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Huddleston that is located in Oregon County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Huddleston.
Virginia
Bedford County
This Huddleston is located in Bedford County and lies 659 miles [1,060.6 km]<1> to the east of the Huddleston that is located in Oregon County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Huddleston.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Huddleston ...
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 Huddleston to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Huddleston and extending to:
Alton, which is the Seat of Oregon County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Huddleston to Jefferson City, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 798 miles [1,284.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,578 miles [10,586.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,310 miles [11,764.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,189 miles [8,350.9 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Huddleston) 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.
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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 Huddleston 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 Huddleston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7276, Longitude: -91.4249 In this case, the coordinates for Huddleston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.777 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.311 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.623 degrees.