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 Millcreek:
37.526244, -90.310001
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 Millcreek
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 six communities that are also named Millcreek.
Within Missouri, the name Millcreek is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Kent County
This Millcreek is located in Kent County and lies 803 miles [1,292.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Millcreek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Millcreek.
Florida
Saint Johns 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 Millcreek [Saint Johns County].
Illinois
Union 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 Illinois community of Millcreek [Union County].
Mississippi
Winston County
This Millcreek is located in Winston County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Millcreek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winston County community of Millcreek.
Texas
Harris County
This Millcreek is located in Harris County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Millcreek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Millcreek.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Millcreek is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,172 miles [1,886.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Millcreek that is located in Madison County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Millcreek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Millcreek ...
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 Millcreek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Millcreek and extending to:
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Millcreek to Jefferson City, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 725 miles [1,166.8 km] to the east (E). 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 6,496 miles [10,454.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,228 miles [11,632.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,106 miles [8,217.3 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Millcreek) 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 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 Millcreek 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 Millcreek 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 Millcreek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5262, Longitude: -90.3100
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.097 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.633 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.947 degrees.