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 Meadowvale:
42.701192, -73.185384
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 Meadowvale
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 Berkshire County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Meadowvale.
Within Massachusetts, the name Meadowvale is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, four are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Maricopa County
This Meadowvale is located in Maricopa County and lies 2,172 miles [3,495.5 km]<1> to the west of the Meadowvale that is located in Berkshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Meadowvale.
Maryland
Harford County
This Meadowvale is located in Harford County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Meadowvale that is located in Berkshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Meadowvale.
Nova Scotia
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 Nova Scotia community of Meadowvale.
Ohio
Wood County
This Meadowvale is located in Wood County and lies 543 miles [873.9 km]<1> to the west of the Meadowvale that is located in Berkshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Meadowvale.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Meadowvale.
Tennessee
Sumner County
This Meadowvale is located in Sumner County and lies 838 miles [1,348.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Meadowvale that is located in Berkshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of Meadowvale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Meadowvale ...
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 Meadowvale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Meadowvale and extending to:
Pittsfield, which is the Seat of Berkshire County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Meadowvale to Pittsfield, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 110 miles [177 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 330 miles [531.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,579 miles [8,978.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,292 miles [10,126 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,167 miles [6,706.1 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- Meadowvale) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Meadowvale 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 Meadowvale 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 Meadowvale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7012, Longitude: -73.1854 In this case, the coordinates for Meadowvale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.212 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.018 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.368 degrees.