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 Marco:
36.747832, -89.808141
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 eight communities that share the name Marco.
Within Missouri, the name Marco is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Collier County
This Marco is located in Collier County and lies 882 miles [1,419.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collier County community of Marco.
Hillsborough County
This Marco is located in Hillsborough County and lies 739 miles [1,189.3 km] to the southeast of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Marco.
Lee 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 Florida community of Marco [Lee County].
Georgia
Jasper 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 Georgia community of Marco [Jasper County].
Indiana
Greene County
This Marco is located in Greene County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Marco.
Louisiana
Natchitoches Parish
This Marco is located in Natchitoches Parish and lies 399 miles [642.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Natchitoches Parish community of Marco.
Manitoba
This Marco lies 1,102 miles [1,773.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
Texas
McCulloch County
This Marco is located in McCulloch County and lies 680 miles [1,094.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Marco that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCulloch County community of Marco.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Marco ...
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.
Charter Oak (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Charter Oak have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Marco to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Marco and extending to:
Bloomfield, which is the Seat of Stoddard County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Marco to Bloomfield, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 711 miles [1,144.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,515 miles [10,484.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,243 miles [11,656.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,120 miles [8,239.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Marco) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Marco. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7478, Longitude: -89.8081 In this case, the coordinates for Marco 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Marco 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 Marco 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 315.733 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.106 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.886 degrees.