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 Rock Ridge:
41.035097, -73.645961
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 Rock Ridge
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 Fairfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Rock Ridge.
Within Connecticut, the name Rock Ridge is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Rock Ridge is located in Jefferson County and lies 880 miles [1,416.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rock Ridge that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Rock Ridge.
Colorado
Douglas 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 Colorado community of Rock Ridge [Douglas County].
Florida
Polk County
This Rock Ridge is located in Polk County and lies 996 miles [1,602.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Rock Ridge that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Rock Ridge.
Manitoba
This Rock Ridge lies 1,432 miles [2,304.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Rock Ridge that is located in Fairfield County.
North Carolina
Wilson County
This Rock Ridge is located in Wilson County and lies 439 miles [706.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Rock Ridge that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Rock Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rock Ridge ...
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 Rock Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rock Ridge and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Rock Ridge to Hartford, with an average speed<4>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 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 232 miles [373.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,665 miles [9,116.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,372 miles [10,254.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,248 miles [6,836.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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- Rock Ridge) 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 Rock Ridge 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 Rock Ridge 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 Rock Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0351, Longitude: -73.6460 In this case, the coordinates for Rock Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.694 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.288 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.361 degrees.