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 Franklin Park:
43.082567, -76.074922
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 Franklin Park
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 Onondaga County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Franklin Park.
Within New York, the name Franklin Park is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Broward County
This Franklin Park is located in Broward County and lies 1,192 miles [1,918.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Broward County community of Franklin Park.
Lee 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 Franklin Park [Lee County].
Idaho
Ada 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 Idaho community of Franklin Park [Ada County].
Illinois
Cook County
This Franklin Park is located in Cook County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the west of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Franklin Park.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Franklin Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 283 miles [455.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Franklin Park.
Massachusetts
Suffolk County
This Franklin Park is located in Suffolk County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the east of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Franklin Park.
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Franklin Park is located in Burlington County and lies 219 miles [352.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Franklin Park.
Middlesex County
This Franklin Park is located in Middlesex County and lies 199 miles [320.3 km] to the south southeast of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Franklin Park.
North Carolina
Transylvania County
This Franklin Park is located in Transylvania County and lies 648 miles [1,042.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Transylvania County community of Franklin Park.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This Franklin Park is located in Allegheny County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Franklin Park.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Franklin Park is located in Fairfax County and lies 293 miles [471.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Franklin Park.
Montgomery County
This Franklin Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 470 miles [756.4 km] to the south southwest of the Franklin Park that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Franklin Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Franklin Park ...
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 Franklin Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Franklin Park and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Franklin Park to Albany, with an average speed<4>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 293 miles [471.5 km] to the south (S). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,682 miles [9,144.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,402 miles [10,303 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,278 miles [6,884.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Franklin Park) 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 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 Franklin Park 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 Franklin Park 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 Franklin Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0826, Longitude: -76.0749 In this case, the coordinates for Franklin Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.948 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.034 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.54 degrees.