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 South End:
41.243986, -72.893990
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 South End
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 New Haven County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named South End.
There is one other community in Connecticut that is also named South End.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Connecticut ...
Fairfield County
This South End is located in Fairfield County and lies 36 miles [57.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the South End that is located in New Haven County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfield County community of South End.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
Vernon Parish
This South End is located in Vernon Parish and lies 1,327 miles [2,135.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the South End that is located in New Haven County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vernon Parish community of South End.
Massachusetts
Hampden County
This South End is located in Hampden County and lies 60 miles [96.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the South End that is located in New Haven County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of South End.
Suffolk 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 South End [Suffolk County].
Texas
Jefferson 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 Texas community of South End [Jefferson County].
Vermont
Rutland County
This South End is located in Rutland County and lies 143 miles [230.1 km]<1> to the north of the South End that is located in New Haven County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutland County community of South End.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South End ...
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 South End to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South End and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 38 miles [61.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from South End to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 272 miles [437.7 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,625 miles [9,052.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,331 miles [10,188.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,208 miles [6,772.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- South End) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 South End 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 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.
<4>
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 South End 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 South End. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2440, Longitude: -72.8940 In this case, the coordinates for South End have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.222 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.79 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.934 degrees.