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 Countryside:
42.442040, -71.193944
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 Countryside
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 Middlesex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found thirteen communities that are also named Countryside.
Within Massachusetts, the name Countryside is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Jefferson County
This Countryside is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,760 miles [2,832.4 km]<1> to the west of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Countryside.
Florida
Pinellas 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 Florida community of Countryside [Pinellas County].
Illinois
Cook County
This Countryside is located in Cook County and lies 854 miles [1,374.4 km]<1> to the west of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Countryside.
Kane 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 Illinois community of Countryside [Kane County].
Kendall County
This Countryside is located in Kendall County and lies 884 miles [1,422.7 km] to the west of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kendall County community of Countryside.
Lake County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Countryside [Lake County].
Kansas
Johnson County
This Countryside is located in Johnson County and lies 1,246 miles [2,005.2 km]<1> to the west of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Countryside.
Maryland
Charles County
This Countryside is located in Charles County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Countryside.
Howard County
This Countryside is located in Howard County and lies 375 miles [603.5 km] to the west southwest of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Countryside.
Washington County
This Countryside is located in Washington County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km] to the west southwest of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Countryside.
Missouri
Platte 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 Missouri community of Countryside [Platte County].
Tennessee
Knox County
This Countryside is located in Knox County and lies 819 miles [1,318.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Countryside.
Virginia
Loudoun County
This Countryside is located in Loudoun County and lies 401 miles [645.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Countryside that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudoun County community of Countryside.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Countryside ...
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 Countryside to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Countryside and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Countryside to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,506 miles [8,861 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,090 miles [6,582.2 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Countryside) 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 Countryside 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 Countryside 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 Countryside. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4420, Longitude: -71.1939 In this case, the coordinates for Countryside have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.044 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.662 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.589 degrees.