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 Mirror Lake:
47.324266, -122.341234
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 Mirror Lake
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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Mirror Lake.
There is one other community in Washington that is also named Mirror Lake.
Beyond Washington, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Washington ...
Whatcom County
This Mirror Lake is located in Whatcom County and lies 92 miles [148.1 km]<1> to the north of the Mirror Lake that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whatcom County community of Mirror Lake.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Mirror Lake lies 304 miles [489.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mirror Lake that is located in King County.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Mirror Lake is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,524 miles [4,062 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Mirror Lake that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Mirror Lake.
Massachusetts
Middlesex 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 Massachusetts community of Mirror Lake [Middlesex County].
New Hampshire
Carroll County
This Mirror Lake is located in Carroll County and lies 2,441 miles [3,928.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mirror Lake that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Mirror Lake.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mirror Lake ...
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 Mirror Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mirror Lake and extending to:
Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Mirror Lake to Seattle, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 32 miles [51.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,321 miles [3,735.3 km] to the east (E). Driving 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 6,792 miles [10,930.7 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 7,554 miles [12,157 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,676 miles [9,134.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Mirror Lake) 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 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 Mirror Lake 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Mirror Lake 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 Mirror Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.3243, Longitude: -122.3412 In this case, the coordinates for Mirror Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.868 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.408 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.785 degrees.