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 Melbourne:
40.141675, -93.787723
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 Melbourne
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 Harrison County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Melbourne.
Within Missouri, the name Melbourne is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eight are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Izard County
This Melbourne is located in Izard County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Izard County community of Melbourne.
California
Mendocino County
This Melbourne is located in Mendocino County and lies 1,579 miles [2,541.2 km]<1> to the west of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mendocino County community of Melbourne.
Florida
Brevard County
This Melbourne is located in Brevard County and lies 1,120 miles [1,802.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brevard County community of Melbourne.
Iowa
Marshall County
This Melbourne is located in Marshall County and lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Melbourne.
Kentucky
Campbell County
This Melbourne is located in Campbell County and lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<1> to the east of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Melbourne.
Manitoba
This Melbourne lies 721 miles [1,160.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
Michigan
Saginaw County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Melbourne [Saginaw County].
Nova Scotia
This Melbourne lies 1,438 miles [2,314.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
Ontario
This Melbourne lies 658 miles [1,058.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
Quebec
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Melbourne.
Tennessee
Anderson County
This Melbourne is located in Anderson County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Melbourne.
Washington
Grays Harbor County
This Melbourne is located in Grays Harbor County and lies 1,554 miles [2,500.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Melbourne that is located in Harrison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grays Harbor County community of Melbourne.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Melbourne ...
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 Melbourne to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Melbourne and extending to:
Bethany, which is the Seat of Harrison County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Melbourne to Bethany, 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 four to five hours.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 138 miles [222.1 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 895 miles [1,440.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,490 miles [10,444.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,236 miles [11,645.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,127 miles [8,251.1 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Melbourne) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Melbourne, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Melbourne 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.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1417, Longitude: -93.7877 In this case, the coordinates for Melbourne have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.544 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.805 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.059 degrees.