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 Delaware:
36.778885, -95.642533
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.
We found fifteen communities that share the name Delaware.
Within Oklahoma, the name Delaware is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Logan County
This Delaware is located in Logan County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of Delaware.
Indiana
Ripley County
This Delaware is located in Ripley County and lies 590 miles [949.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ripley County community of Delaware.
Iowa
Delaware County
This Delaware is located in Delaware County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Delaware.
Kentucky
Daviess County
This Delaware is located in Daviess County and lies 457 miles [735.5 km]<1> to the east of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Daviess County community of Delaware.
Louisiana
Iberia Parish
This Delaware is located in Iberia Parish and lies 525 miles [844.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iberia Parish community of Delaware.
Michigan
Keweenaw County
This Delaware is located in Keweenaw County and lies 829 miles [1,334.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Keweenaw County community of Delaware.
Missouri
Shannon County
This Delaware is located in Shannon County and lies 234 miles [376.6 km]<1> to the east of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shannon County community of Delaware.
New Jersey
Warren County
This Delaware is located in Warren County and lies 1,139 miles [1,833 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Delaware.
New York
Albany 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 York community of Delaware [Albany County].
Erie County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Delaware [Erie County].
Ohio
Delaware County
This Delaware is located in Delaware County and lies 719 miles [1,157.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Delaware.
Ontario
This Delaware lies 863 miles [1,388.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
Pennsylvania
Pike County
This Delaware is located in Pike County and lies 1,150 miles [1,850.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Delaware.
Texas
Brown 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 Texas community of Delaware [Brown County].
Virginia
Southampton County
This Delaware is located in Southampton County and lies 1,030 miles [1,657.6 km]<1> to the east of the Delaware that is located in Nowata County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Southampton County community of Delaware.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Delaware ...
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.
Bowlin Spring (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bowlin Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 town such as Delaware to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Delaware and extending to:
Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 138 miles [222.1 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Delaware to Oklahoma City, with an average speed<5>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 1,023 miles [1,646.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 40 days and walking would take 59 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,731 miles [10,832.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,473 miles [12,026.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,358 miles [8,622.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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 from Point A (ie- Delaware) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Delaware. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7789, Longitude: -95.6425 In this case, the coordinates for Delaware 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 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 Delaware 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Delaware to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.587 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.579 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.584 degrees.