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 Split Rock:
43.024233, -76.223260
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 Split Rock
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 four communities that are also named Split Rock.
Within New York, the name Split Rock is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Carbon County
This Split Rock is located in Carbon County and lies 138 miles [222.1 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Split Rock that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carbon County community of Split Rock.
West Virginia
Pocahontas 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 West Virginia community of Split Rock [Pocahontas County].
Wisconsin
Shawano County
This Split Rock is located in Shawano County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Split Rock that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shawano County community of Split Rock.
Wyoming
Natrona 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 Wyoming community of Split Rock [Natrona County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Split Rock ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Split Rock to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Split Rock and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Split Rock 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 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 288 miles [463.5 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 5,690 miles [9,157.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,411 miles [10,317.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,286 miles [6,897.6 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Split Rock) 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 Split Rock 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 Split Rock 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 Split Rock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0242, Longitude: -76.2233 In this case, the coordinates for Split Rock have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.046 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.136 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.636 degrees.