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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 Willow Glen:
42.963400, -76.436046
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 Willow Glen
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 eleven communities that are also named Willow Glen.
There are two communities within New York that are also named Willow Glen.
Beyond New York, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In New York ...
Saratoga County
This Willow Glen is located in Saratoga County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the east of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saratoga County community of Willow Glen.
Tompkins County
This Willow Glen is located in Tompkins County and lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<1> to the south of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tompkins County community of Willow Glen.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Shelby County
This Willow Glen is located in Shelby County and lies 878 miles [1,413 km]<1> to the southwest of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Willow Glen.
California
Madera County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Willow Glen [Madera County].
Santa Clara County
This Willow Glen is located in Santa Clara County and lies 2,401 miles [3,864 km]<1> to the west of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Clara County community of Willow Glen.
Louisiana
De Soto Parish
This Willow Glen is located in De Soto Parish and lies 1,204 miles [1,937.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the De Soto Parish community of Willow Glen.
Iberville Parish
This Willow Glen is located in Iberville Parish and lies 1,191 miles [1,916.7 km] to the southwest of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iberville Parish community of Willow Glen.
Rapides Parish
This Willow Glen is located in Rapides Parish and lies 1,192 miles [1,918.3 km] to the southwest of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rapides Parish community of Willow Glen.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Willow Glen is located in Baltimore County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km]<1> to the south of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Willow Glen.
Ohio
Tuscarawas County
This Willow Glen is located in Tuscarawas County and lies 310 miles [498.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscarawas County community of Willow Glen.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Willow Glen is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,815 miles [2,921 km]<1> to the west of the Willow Glen that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Willow Glen.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Willow Glen ...
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 Willow Glen to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Willow Glen and extending to:
Syracuse, which is the Seat of Onondaga County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Willow Glen to Syracuse, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 137 miles [220.5 km] to the east (E). 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 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 282 miles [453.8 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,701 miles [9,174.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,422 miles [10,335.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,297 miles [6,915.4 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Willow Glen) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Willow Glen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Willow Glen 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 Willow Glen. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9634, Longitude: -76.4360 In this case, the coordinates for Willow Glen have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.185 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.282 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.764 degrees.