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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 Meadow Brook:
47.706802, -122.290839
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 found seventeen communities that share the name Meadow Brook.
Within Washington, the name Meadow Brook is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Yuma County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Meadow Brook [Yuma County].
California
El Dorado County
This Meadow Brook is located in El Dorado County and lies 615 miles [989.7 km]<2> to the south of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Dorado County community of Meadow Brook.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Meadow Brook is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,514 miles [4,045.9 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Meadow Brook.
Kansas
Johnson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Meadow Brook [Johnson County].
Kentucky
Estill County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Meadow Brook [Estill County].
Maine
Penobscot County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Meadow Brook [Penobscot County].
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Meadow Brook is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 2,327 miles [3,744.9 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Meadow Brook.
Carroll County
This Meadow Brook is located in Carroll County and lies 2,286 miles [3,679 km] to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Meadow Brook.
Massachusetts
Bristol County
This Meadow Brook is located in Bristol County and lies 2,488 miles [4,004 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bristol County community of Meadow Brook.
Minnesota
Saint Louis County
This Meadow Brook is located in Saint Louis County and lies 1,352 miles [2,175.8 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Meadow Brook.
New Brunswick
This Meadow Brook lies 2,660 miles [4,280.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
North Carolina
Edgecombe County
This Meadow Brook is located in Edgecombe County and lies 2,393 miles [3,851.2 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Edgecombe County community of Meadow Brook.
Lenoir County
This Meadow Brook is located in Lenoir County and lies 2,428 miles [3,907.5 km] to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Meadow Brook.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Meadow Brook is located in Anderson County and lies 2,228 miles [3,585.6 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Meadow Brook.
Darlington County
This Meadow Brook is located in Darlington County and lies 2,366 miles [3,807.7 km] to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Meadow Brook.
Pickens County
This Meadow Brook is located in Pickens County and lies 2,210 miles [3,556.7 km] to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of Meadow Brook.
Virginia
Montgomery County
This Meadow Brook is located in Montgomery County and lies 2,219 miles [3,571.1 km]<2> to the east of the Meadow Brook that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Meadow Brook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Meadow Brook ...
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.
Cedar Park (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Meadow Brook to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Meadow Brook and extending to:
Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies just to the South Southwest.
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<2> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Meadow Brook to Olympia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,318 miles [3,730.5 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,766 miles [10,888.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,528 miles [12,115.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,652 miles [9,096 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Meadow Brook 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Meadow Brook) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Meadow Brook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7068, Longitude: -122.2908
<3>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Meadow Brook to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.844 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.40 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.724 degrees.