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 Rose Creek:
40.889904, -117.895135
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 Rose Creek
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 Humboldt County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Rose Creek.
Within Nevada, the name Rose Creek is unique.
Beyond Nevada, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Minnesota
Mower County
This Rose Creek is located in Mower County and lies 1,289 miles [2,074.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rose Creek that is located in Humboldt County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mower County community of Rose Creek.
South Carolina
Richland County
This Rose Creek is located in Richland County and lies 2,062 miles [3,318.5 km]<1> to the east of the Rose Creek that is located in Humboldt County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Rose Creek.
Tennessee
McNairy County
This Rose Creek is located in McNairy County and lies 1,627 miles [2,618.4 km]<1> to the east of the Rose Creek that is located in Humboldt County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McNairy County community of Rose Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rose Creek ...
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.
Central ‑ Historic (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
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 Rose Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rose Creek and extending to:
Winnemucca, which is the Seat of Humboldt County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Rose Creek to Winnemucca, with an average speed<3> 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.
Carson City, which is the State Capital of Nevada, lies 154 miles [247.8 km] to the southwest (SW). 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 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,149 miles [3,458.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 84 days and walking would take 123 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,126 miles [11,468.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,895 miles [12,705.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,925 miles [9,535.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rose Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Rose Creek 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 Rose Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8899, Longitude: -117.8951 In this case, the coordinates for Rose Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.756 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 337.211 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.337 degrees.