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 Morris Park:
40.852322, -73.853468
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 Morris 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 Bronx County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Morris Park.
There is one other community in New York that is also named Morris Park.
Beyond New York, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In New York ...
Queens County
This Morris Park is located in Queens County and lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south of the Morris Park that is located in Bronx County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Morris Park.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New Jersey
Warren 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 New Jersey community of Morris Park [Warren County].
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
This Morris Park is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 540 miles [869 km]<1> to the southwest of the Morris Park that is located in Bronx County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Morris Park.
Wisconsin
Dane 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 Wisconsin community of Morris Park [Dane County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Morris 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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Morris Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Morris Park and extending to:
Bronx, which is the Seat of Bronx County, lies just to the Southwest.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Morris Park to Albany, with an average speed<3>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 216 miles [347.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
The shortest distance<4> 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).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,388 miles [10,280.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,264 miles [6,862.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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- Morris 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Morris 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 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 Morris 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 Morris Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8523, Longitude: -73.8535 In this case, the coordinates for Morris Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.837 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.421 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.535 degrees.