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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Longwood Station, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Longwood Station and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Longwood Station:
    • 42.342042, -71.110608
    • 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 Longwood 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 Norfolk County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Norfolk County
    • Since Longwood Station is near Suffolk County and also Middlesex County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Suffolk County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Middlesex 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Longwood Station

Communities Also Named Longwood Station ...

We found one communities that are also named Longwood Station.

Within Massachusetts, the name Longwood Station is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, there is another community also named Longwood Station in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Longwood Station.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Longwood 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.

  • Boston
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Boston is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 691,531 people
  • Chestnut Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Chestnut Hill is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hill
  • Downtown Crossing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Downtown Crossing is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downtown Crossing
  • Fields Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Fields Corner is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Corner
  • Grove Hall
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Grove Hall is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Hall
  • Highland
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Highland is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
  • Meeting House Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Meeting House Hill is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meeting House Hill
  • Mount Hope
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Mount Hope is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope
  • Reservoir
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Reservoir is located in Norfolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reservoir
  • Strawberry Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Strawberry Hill is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry Hill
  • Winter Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Winter Hill is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter Hill

How Far From Longwood Station to ...

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 Longwood Station to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Longwood Station and extending to:

  • Dedham, which is the Seat of Norfolk County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the east northeast (ENE).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 391 miles [629.3 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Longwood Station 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 5,507 miles [8,862.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,213 miles [9,998.9 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>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 Longwood 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>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- Longwood Station) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Longwood Station 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 Longwood Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3420, Longitude: -71.1106       In this case, the coordinates for Longwood Station have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.009 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.605 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.603 degrees.