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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Rosita, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Rosita and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Rosita:
- 26.399786, -98.927807
- 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 Rosita
- 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 Starr County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Starr County
- Since Rosita is near Zapata County and also Hidalgo County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Zapata County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hidalgo County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Rosita
Communities Also Named Rosita ...
We found three communities that are also named Rosita.
There is one other community in Texas that is also named Rosita.
Beyond Texas, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Duval County
- This Rosita is located in Duval County and lies 100 miles [160.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Rosita that is located in Starr County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of Rosita.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Custer County
- This Rosita is located in Custer County and lies 889 miles [1,430.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Rosita that is located in Starr County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Custer County community of Rosita.
- Tennessee
- Stewart 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 Tennessee community of Rosita [Stewart County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rosita ...
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.
- Airport Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Airport Heights is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Heights
- Evergreen
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Evergreen is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
- Evergreen has also been known as:
- Evergreen Colonia
- Hackberry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Hackberry is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
- Hackberry has also been known as:
- Hackberry Colonia
- Hilltop
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Hilltop is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
- Hilltop has also been known as:
- Hilltop Colonia
- Joseph Griggs Colonia
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Margarita
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Margarita is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margarita
- Margarita has also been known as:
- Margarita Colonia
- Mitchell
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Mitchell is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
- Mitchell has also been known as:
- Mitchell Colonia
- Salmon
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Salmon is located in Starr County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon
- Salmon has also been known as:
- Salmon Colonia
How Far From Rosita to ...
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 Rosita to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rosita and extending to:
- Rio Grande City, which is the Seat of Starr County, lies just to the East.
- Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 276 miles [444.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Rosita to Austin, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,531 miles [2,463.9 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 60 days and walking would take 87 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,404 miles [11,915.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,125 miles [13,075.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,001 miles [9,657.7 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 from Point A (ie- Rosita) 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 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 Rosita 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 Rosita 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 Rosita. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.3998, Longitude: -98.9278 In this case, the coordinates for Rosita have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.32 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.127 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 316.047 degrees. |
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