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 Crescent Beach:
42.405653, -70.991161
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 Crescent Beach
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 Suffolk County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Crescent Beach.
There is one other community in Massachusetts that is also named Crescent Beach.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
Plymouth County
This Crescent Beach is located in Plymouth County and lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<1> to the south of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Crescent Beach.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Crescent Beach lies 2,343 miles [3,770.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
Connecticut
New London County
This Crescent Beach is located in New London County and lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Crescent Beach.
Florida
Saint Johns County
This Crescent Beach is located in Saint Johns County and lies 1,041 miles [1,675.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Johns County community of Crescent Beach.
Sarasota 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 Crescent Beach [Sarasota County].
Maine
Cumberland 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 Maine community of Crescent Beach [Cumberland County].
Knox County
This Crescent Beach is located in Knox County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Crescent Beach.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
This Crescent Beach is located in Hennepin County and lies 1,138 miles [1,831.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hennepin County community of Crescent Beach.
New York
Monroe County
This Crescent Beach is located in Monroe County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Crescent Beach.
Richmond 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 New York community of Crescent Beach [Richmond County].
Nova Scotia
This Crescent Beach lies 354 miles [569.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
Ontario
This Crescent Beach lies 406 miles [653.4 km]<1> to the west of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
Quebec
This Crescent Beach lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<1> to the north of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
South Carolina
Horry County
This Crescent Beach is located in Horry County and lies 725 miles [1,166.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Crescent Beach that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Crescent Beach.
Washington
Clallam 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 Washington community of Crescent Beach [Clallam County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Crescent Beach ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Crescent Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Crescent Beach and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the southwest (SW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Crescent Beach 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 5,499 miles [8,849.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,206 miles [9,987.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,082 miles [6,569.3 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- Crescent Beach) 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 Crescent Beach 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 Crescent Beach 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 Crescent Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4057, Longitude: -70.9912 In this case, the coordinates for Crescent Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.928 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.525 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.517 degrees.