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 Cummingsville:
42.481325, -71.174435
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 Cummingsville
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 two communities that are also named Cummingsville.
Within Massachusetts, the name Cummingsville is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Minnesota
Olmsted County
This Cummingsville is located in Olmsted County and lies 1,063 miles [1,710.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cummingsville that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Olmsted County community of Cummingsville.
Tennessee
Van Buren County
This Cummingsville is located in Van Buren County and lies 891 miles [1,433.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Cummingsville that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Buren County community of Cummingsville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cummingsville ...
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 Cummingsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cummingsville and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Cummingsville to Boston, with an average speed<2> 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 394 miles [634.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,504 miles [8,857.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,212 miles [9,997.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,088 miles [6,579 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Cummingsville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Cummingsville 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 Cummingsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4813, Longitude: -71.1744 In this case, the coordinates for Cummingsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.026 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.648 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.56 degrees.