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 Strong City:
35.669929, -99.600291
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 Strong City
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 Roger Mills County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Strong City.
Within Oklahoma, the name Strong City is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, there is another community also named Strong City in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kansas
Chase County
This Strong City is located in Chase County and lies 252 miles [405.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Strong City that is located in Roger Mills County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chase County community of Strong City.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Strong City ...
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 town such as Strong City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Strong City and extending to:
Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 118 miles [189.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Strong City to Oklahoma City, 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 1,256 miles [2,021.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 49 days and walking would take 72 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,929 miles [11,151.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,677 miles [12,354.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,569 miles [8,962.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Strong City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
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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.
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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 Strong City 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 Strong City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6699, Longitude: -99.6003 In this case, the coordinates for Strong City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 322.206 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 319.504 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.644 degrees.