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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Melrose Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Melrose Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Melrose Park:
    • 42.908678, -76.540218
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Melrose Park
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Melrose Park ...

We found seven communities that share the name Melrose Park.

Within New York, the name Melrose Park is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Broward County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Broward County and lies 1,177 miles [1,894.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Broward County community of Melrose Park.
      • Columbia 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 Melrose Park [Columbia County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Cook County and lies 581 miles [935 km]<1> to the west of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Melrose Park.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Montgomery County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Melrose Park.
    • Tennessee
      • Coffee County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Coffee County and lies 722 miles [1,161.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coffee County community of Melrose Park.
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Harris County and lies 1,374 miles [2,211.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Melrose Park.
    • Wisconsin
      • Winnebago County
      • This Melrose Park is located in Winnebago County and lies 608 miles [978.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Melrose Park that is located in Cayuga County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winnebago County community of Melrose Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Melrose 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.

  • Baptist Corners
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baptist Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baptist Corners
    • Baptist Corners is located in Cayuga County
  • Cold Spring
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cold Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
    • Cold Spring is located in Cayuga County
  • Cross Roads
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cross Roads have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
    • Cross Roads is located in Cayuga County
  • Fosterville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fosterville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosterville
    • Fosterville is located in Cayuga County
  • Half Acre
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Half Acre have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Half Acre
    • Half Acre is located in Cayuga County
  • Jones Beach
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Beach
    • Jones Beach is located in Onondaga County
  • Long Bridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Bridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Bridge
    • Long Bridge is located in Onondaga County
  • Marysville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marysville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marysville
    • Marysville is located in Onondaga County
  • Petty Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Petty Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petty Corner
    • Petty Corner is located in Cayuga County
  • Powers Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powers Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powers Corner
    • Powers Corner is located in Cayuga County
  • Sherlock Corners
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sherlock Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherlock Corners
    • Sherlock Corners is located in Cayuga County
  • Wicks Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wicks Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wicks Corners
    • Wicks Corners is located in Cayuga County
  • Willow Glen
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Glen have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Glen
    • Willow Glen is located in Onondaga County
  • Winding Ways
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winding Ways have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winding Ways
    • Winding Ways is located in Onondaga County

How Far From Melrose Park to ...

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 Melrose Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Melrose Park and extending to:

  • Auburn, which is the Seat of Cayuga County, lies just to the Northwest.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Melrose Park to Albany, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 278 miles [447.4 km] to the south (S). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,708 miles [9,186.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,428 miles [10,344.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,304 miles [6,926.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Melrose Park. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Cayuga County: www.co.cayuga.ny.us/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

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- Melrose Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Melrose Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9087, Longitude: -76.5402       In this case, the coordinates for Melrose Park 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Melrose 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>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 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 Melrose Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.256 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.353 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.837 degrees.




 

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