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 Julesburg:
40.461564, -92.605639
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 Julesburg
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 Schuyler County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Julesburg.
Within Missouri, the name Julesburg is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Julesburg in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Sedgwick County
This Julesburg is located in Sedgwick County and lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<1> to the west of the Julesburg that is located in Schuyler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sedgwick County community of Julesburg.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Julesburg ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Julesburg to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Julesburg and extending to:
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 132 miles [212.4 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Julesburg 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 833 miles [1,340.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 48 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,432 miles [10,351.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,176 miles [11,548.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,065 miles [8,151.3 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Julesburg) 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 Julesburg 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 Julesburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4616, Longitude: -92.6056 In this case, the coordinates for Julesburg have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.751 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.933 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.399 degrees.