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 McLoughlin Heights:
45.624007, -122.600929
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 McLoughlin Heights
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 Clark County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
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 McLoughlin Heights
Communities Also Named McLoughlin Heights ...
We found one communities that are also named McLoughlin Heights.
Within Washington, the name McLoughlin Heights is unique.
Beyond Washington, there is another community also named McLoughlin Heights in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Thomas County
This McLoughlin Heights is located in Thomas County and lies 2,301 miles [3,703.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the McLoughlin Heights that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Thomas County community of McLoughlin Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near McLoughlin Heights ...
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 McLoughlin Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in McLoughlin Heights and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 98 miles [157.7 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from McLoughlin Heights to Olympia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,341 miles [3,767.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 133 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,907 miles [11,115.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,669 miles [12,342.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,782 miles [9,305.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McLoughlin Heights) 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 McLoughlin Heights 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 McLoughlin Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6240, Longitude: -122.6009 In this case, the coordinates for McLoughlin Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.993 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.47 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.066 degrees.