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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 Stevenson:
41.383152, -73.184557
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 Stevenson
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 fourteen communities that are also named Stevenson.
Within Connecticut, the name Stevenson is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jackson County
This Stevenson is located in Jackson County and lies 818 miles [1,316.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Stevenson.
Indiana
Greene 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 Indiana community of Stevenson [Greene County].
Warrick County
This Stevenson is located in Warrick County and lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warrick County community of Stevenson.
Kansas
Barber 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 Kansas community of Stevenson [Barber County].
Kentucky
Breathitt County
This Stevenson is located in Breathitt County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Breathitt County community of Stevenson.
Louisiana
Morehouse Parish
This Stevenson is located in Morehouse Parish and lies 1,182 miles [1,902.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morehouse Parish community of Stevenson.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Stevenson is located in Baltimore County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Stevenson.
Michigan
Ontonagon 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 Michigan community of Stevenson [Ontonagon County].
Minnesota
Saint Louis County
This Stevenson is located in Saint Louis County and lies 1,061 miles [1,707.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Stevenson.
Nebraska
Buffalo 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 Nebraska community of Stevenson [Buffalo County].
Ontario
This Stevenson lies 473 miles [761.2 km]<1> to the west of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
Pennsylvania
Bradford County
This Stevenson is located in Bradford County and lies 168 miles [270.4 km]<1> to the west of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradford County community of Stevenson.
Texas
Van Zandt 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 Stevenson [Van Zandt County].
Washington
Skamania County
This Stevenson is located in Skamania County and lies 2,417 miles [3,889.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Stevenson that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Skamania County community of Stevenson.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stevenson ...
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 Stevenson to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Stevenson and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Stevenson to Hartford, with an average speed<4> 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 266 miles [428.1 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,632 miles [9,063.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,339 miles [10,201.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,215 miles [6,783.4 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Stevenson) 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 Stevenson 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 Stevenson 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 Stevenson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3832, Longitude: -73.1846 In this case, the coordinates for Stevenson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.378 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.989 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.997 degrees.