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 South Shore:
38.865328, -90.523175
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 South Shore
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 Saint Charles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named South Shore.
Within Missouri, the name South Shore is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of eight communities that are located 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 ...
California
Alameda County
This South Shore is located in Alameda County and lies 1,712 miles [2,755.2 km]<1> to the west of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alameda County community of South Shore.
Illinois
Cook County
This South Shore is located in Cook County and lies 253 miles [407.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of South Shore.
Kentucky
Greenup County
This South Shore is located in Greenup County and lies 406 miles [653.4 km]<1> to the east of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenup County community of South Shore.
Nebraska
Douglas 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 Nebraska community of South Shore [Douglas County].
Nova Scotia
This South Shore lies 1,459 miles [2,348 km]<1> to the east northeast of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
South Dakota
Codington County
This South Shore is located in Codington County and lies 541 miles [870.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Codington County community of South Shore.
Texas
Bell County
Although located in Bell County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of South Shore.
Harrison County
This South Shore is located in Harrison County and lies 471 miles [758 km]<1> to the south southwest of the South Shore that is located in Saint Charles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of South Shore.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South Shore ...
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 & 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 South Shore to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South Shore and extending to:
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from South Shore to Jefferson City, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 724 miles [1,165.2 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,437 miles [10,359.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,173 miles [11,543.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,054 miles [8,133.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- South Shore) 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 South Shore 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 South Shore 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 South Shore. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8653, Longitude: -90.5232 In this case, the coordinates for South Shore have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.296 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.043 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.748 degrees.