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 El Rancho:
36.378994, -82.399309
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 El Rancho
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named El Rancho.
Within Tennessee, the name El Rancho is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Jefferson County
This El Rancho is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,264 miles [2,034.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the El Rancho that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of El Rancho.
Illinois
Kankakee 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 Illinois community of El Rancho [Kankakee County].
New Mexico
Bernalillo County
Although located in Bernalillo County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bernalillo County community of El Rancho.
Santa Fe County
This El Rancho is located in Santa Fe County and lies 1,317 miles [2,119.5 km]<1> to the west of the El Rancho that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Fe County community of El Rancho.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This El Rancho is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,611 miles [2,592.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the El Rancho that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of El Rancho.
Curious and Interesting Names Near El Rancho ...
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.
Buffalo Ridge ‑ Historic (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
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 community such as El Rancho to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in El Rancho and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from El Rancho to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 340 miles [547.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,234 miles [10,032.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,942 miles [11,172.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,819 miles [7,755.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- El Rancho) 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 El Rancho 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 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 El Rancho 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 El Rancho. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3790, Longitude: -82.3993 In this case, the coordinates for El Rancho have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.138 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.77 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.79 degrees.