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 Glenfield:
34.511247, -89.037281
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 Glenfield
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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Glenfield.
Within Mississippi, the name Glenfield is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New Jersey
Morris County
This Glenfield is located in Morris County and lies 906 miles [1,458.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morris County community of Glenfield.
New York
Lewis County
This Glenfield is located in Lewis County and lies 965 miles [1,553 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Glenfield.
North Carolina
Greene County
This Glenfield is located in Greene County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km]<1> to the east of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Glenfield.
North Dakota
Foster County
This Glenfield is located in Foster County and lies 1,020 miles [1,641.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Foster County community of Glenfield.
Ontario
This Glenfield lies 963 miles [1,549.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This Glenfield is located in Allegheny County and lies 639 miles [1,028.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glenfield that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Glenfield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Glenfield ...
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 Glenfield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glenfield and extending to:
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Glenfield to Jackson, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 729 miles [1,173.2 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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,595 miles [10,613.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,314 miles [11,770.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,189 miles [8,350.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 from Point A (ie- Glenfield) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Glenfield 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 Glenfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5112, Longitude: -89.0373 In this case, the coordinates for Glenfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.109 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.081 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.014 degrees.