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 Mackie:
35.686158, -99.794554
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 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 Roger Mills County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Mackie.
Within Oklahoma, the name Mackie is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Fountain County
This Mackie is located in Fountain County and lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mackie that is located in Roger Mills County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fountain County community of Mackie.
Kansas
Cherokee County
This Mackie is located in Cherokee County and lies 295 miles [474.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mackie that is located in Roger Mills County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Mackie.
Crawford 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 Kansas community of Mackie [Crawford County].
McPherson County
This Mackie is located in McPherson County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km] to the north northeast of the Mackie that is located in Roger Mills County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McPherson County community of Mackie.
Neosho 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 Kansas community of Mackie [Neosho County].
Missouri
Franklin 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 Missouri community of Mackie [Franklin County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mackie ...
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 Mackie to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mackie and extending to:
Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Mackie to Oklahoma City, 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 1,266 miles [2,037.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 50 days and walking would take 72 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,935 miles [11,160.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,683 miles [12,364.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,575 miles [8,972.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mackie) 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 Mackie 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.
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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 Mackie 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 Mackie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6862, Longitude: -99.7946 In this case, the coordinates for Mackie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 322.344 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 319.668 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.737 degrees.