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 Marsh Creek:
37.417274, -90.464562
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 Marsh Creek
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 Madison County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Marsh Creek.
Within Missouri, the name Marsh Creek is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Gwinnett County
This Marsh Creek is located in Gwinnett County and lies 431 miles [693.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Marsh Creek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Marsh Creek.
Kansas
Republic 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 Kansas community of Marsh Creek [Republic County].
Kentucky
Whitley 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 Kentucky community of Marsh Creek [Whitley County].
Pennsylvania
Tioga County
This Marsh Creek is located in Tioga County and lies 756 miles [1,216.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Marsh Creek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tioga County community of Marsh Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Marsh Creek ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Marsh Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Marsh Creek and extending to:
Fredericktown, which is the Seat of Madison County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Marsh Creek to Fredericktown, with an average speed<3> 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 122 miles [196.3 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 735 miles [1,182.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,507 miles [10,472 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,239 miles [11,650 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,117 miles [8,235 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Marsh Creek) 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 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 Marsh Creek 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 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.
<4>
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 Marsh Creek 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 Marsh Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4173, Longitude: -90.4646 In this case, the coordinates for Marsh Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.192 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.727 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.041 degrees.