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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 Livonia:
40.492034, -92.700484
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 six communities that share the name Livonia.
Within Missouri, the name Livonia is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Washington County
This Livonia is located in Washington County and lies 367 miles [590.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Livonia that is located in Putnam County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Livonia.
Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish
This Livonia is located in Pointe Coupee Parish and lies 688 miles [1,107.2 km]<1> to the south of the Livonia that is located in Putnam County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pointe Coupee Parish community of Livonia.
Michigan
Wayne County
This Livonia is located in Wayne County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Livonia that is located in Putnam County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Livonia.
Minnesota
Sherburne 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 Livonia [Sherburne County].
New York
Livingston County
This Livonia is located in Livingston County and lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Livonia that is located in Putnam County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Livonia.
Pennsylvania
Centre County
This Livonia is located in Centre County and lies 805 miles [1,295.5 km]<1> to the east of the Livonia that is located in Putnam County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Centre County community of Livonia.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Livonia ...
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.
Chapel (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chapel have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Julesburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
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 village such as Livonia to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Livonia and extending to:
Unionville, which is the Seat of Putnam County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Livonia to Unionville, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 838 miles [1,348.6 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 48 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,434 miles [10,354.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,178 miles [11,551.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,068 miles [8,156.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Livonia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Livonia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4920, Longitude: -92.7005 In this case, the coordinates for Livonia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Livonia 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>
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.
<4>
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.
<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 Livonia 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 317.817 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.013 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.44 degrees.