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 Sweden:
36.877557, -92.500998
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 Sweden.
Within Missouri, the name Sweden is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Jefferson County
This Sweden is located in Jefferson County and lies 190 miles [305.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Sweden.
Georgia
Pickens County
This Sweden is located in Pickens County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of Sweden.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Sweden is located in Aroostook County and lies 1,423 miles [2,290.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Sweden.
Oxford County
This Sweden is located in Oxford County and lies 1,238 miles [1,992.4 km] to the east northeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oxford County community of Sweden.
Ohio
Ashtabula 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 Ohio community of Sweden [Ashtabula County].
Pennsylvania
Potter County
This Sweden is located in Potter County and lies 850 miles [1,367.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Potter County community of Sweden.
South Carolina
Bamberg County
This Sweden is located in Bamberg County and lies 685 miles [1,102.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sweden that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bamberg County community of Sweden.
Texas
Duval 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 Texas community of Sweden [Duval County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sweden ...
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.
Blanche (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blanche have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Sweden to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sweden and extending to:
Ava, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Sweden to Ava, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 853 miles [1,372.8 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 34 days and walking would take 49 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,611 miles [10,639.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,346 miles [11,822.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,226 miles [8,410.4 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- Sweden) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sweden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8776, Longitude: -92.5010 In this case, the coordinates for Sweden 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 Sweden 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>
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 Sweden 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 317.493 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.16 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.089 degrees.