Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Riverside Station, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Riverside Station and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Riverside Station
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Riverside Station:
- 33.672608, -84.261033
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Riverside Station
- 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 DeKalb County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for DeKalb County
- Since Riverside Station is near Henry County and also Clayton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Henry County
- eBird sighting report for Clayton County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Riverside Station ...
We found one communities that share the name Riverside Station.
Within Georgia, the name Riverside Station is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Riverside Station in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New York
- Warren County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Riverside Station [Warren County].
- New York
Curious and Interesting Names Near Riverside Station ...
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.
- Cedar Grove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
- Cedar Grove is located in DeKalb County
- Cedar Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Valley
- Cedar Valley is located in DeKalb County
- Chapel Mill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chapel Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Mill
- Chapel Mill is located in DeKalb County
- Cherry Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherry Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Ridge
- Cherry Ridge is located in DeKalb County
- Cherrywood
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherrywood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherrywood
- Cherrywood is located in DeKalb County
- Chimney Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chimney Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimney Ridge
- Chimney Ridge is located in DeKalb County
- Creek Cove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Creek Cove have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creek Cove
- Creek Cove is located in Henry County
- Forest Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Ridge
- Forest Ridge is located in DeKalb County
- Kings Row
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east) - Leisure Woods
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leisure Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisure Woods
- Leisure Woods is located in DeKalb County
- Lincolndale
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincolndale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincolndale
- Lincolndale is located in DeKalb County
- Moonlight Forest
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moonlight Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moonlight Forest
- Moonlight Forest is located in DeKalb County
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- Panthersville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panthersville
- Panthersville is located in DeKalb County
- River Run
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast) - Riverchase
(Less than 2 miles to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverchase have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverchase
- Riverchase is located in DeKalb County
- Royal Oaks
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Oaks have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Oaks
- Royal Oaks is located in DeKalb County
- Skyline Forest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Skyline Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline Forest
- Skyline Forest is located in DeKalb County
- Wishing Well Hills
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wishing Well Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wishing Well Hills
- Wishing Well Hills is located in DeKalb County
- Panthersville
How Far From Riverside Station to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Riverside Station to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Riverside Station and extending to:
- Decatur, which is the Seat of DeKalb County, lies just to the North Northwest.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Riverside Station to Atlanta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 539 miles [867.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,437 miles [10,359.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,139 miles [11,489.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,017 miles [8,074.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Riverside Station. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for DeKalb County: www.co.dekalb.ga.us/
The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Riverside Station 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. |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Riverside Station) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Riverside Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6726, Longitude: -84.2610 In this case, the coordinates for Riverside Station have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Riverside Station to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.176 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.577 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.256 degrees. |