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 Minnehaha:
45.659006, -122.648708
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 Minnehaha
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:
We found four communities that are also named Minnehaha.
Within Washington, the name Minnehaha is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Yavapai County
This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Minnehaha [Yavapai County].
Colorado
El Paso County
This Minnehaha is located in El Paso County and lies 1,015 miles [1,633.5 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Minnehaha that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Minnehaha.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Minnehaha [Hennepin County].
New York
Herkimer County
This Minnehaha is located in Herkimer County and lies 2,306 miles [3,711.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Minnehaha that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Herkimer County community of Minnehaha.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Minnehaha ...
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 & 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 Minnehaha to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Minnehaha and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Minnehaha to Olympia, with an average speed<5>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 2,343 miles [3,770.7 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 134 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,905 miles [11,112.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,668 miles [12,340.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,781 miles [9,303.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Minnehaha, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Minnehaha) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Minnehaha 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.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Minnehaha 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 Minnehaha. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6590, Longitude: -122.6487 In this case, the coordinates for Minnehaha have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.035 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.52 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.095 degrees.