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 Southampton:
42.229257, -72.730093
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 Southampton
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 Hampshire County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found sixteen communities that are also named Southampton.
Within Massachusetts, the name Southampton is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Harford County
This Southampton is located in Harford County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Southampton.
Saint Mary's County
This Southampton is located in Saint Mary's County and lies 336 miles [540.7 km] to the southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary's County community of Southampton.
New Brunswick
This Southampton lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
New Jersey
Burlington 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 Jersey community of Southampton [Burlington County].
New York
Suffolk County
This Southampton is located in Suffolk County and lies 94 miles [151.3 km]<1> to the south of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Southampton.
Nova Scotia
This Southampton lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
Ontario
This Southampton lies 460 miles [740.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
Pennsylvania
Bucks County
This Southampton is located in Bucks County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Southampton.
Franklin 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 Pennsylvania community of Southampton [Franklin County].
Somerset 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 Pennsylvania community of Southampton [Somerset County].
Prince Edward Island
This Southampton lies 576 miles [927 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Southampton is located in Salt Lake County and lies 2,008 miles [3,231.6 km]<1> to the west of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Southampton.
Virginia
Hampton City
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 Virginia community of Southampton [Hampton City].
Portsmouth City
This Southampton is located in Portsmouth City and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Portsmouth City community of Southampton.
Richmond City
This Southampton is located in Richmond City and lies 411 miles [661.4 km] to the southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond City community of Southampton.
Roanoke County
This Southampton is located in Roanoke County and lies 511 miles [822.4 km] to the southwest of the Southampton that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke County community of Southampton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southampton ...
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 Southampton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southampton and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 85 miles [136.8 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Southampton to Boston, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 322 miles [518.2 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 6,289 miles [10,121.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,165 miles [6,702.9 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' (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- Southampton) 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 Southampton 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 Southampton 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 Southampton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2293, Longitude: -72.7301 In this case, the coordinates for Southampton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.998 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.70 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.39 degrees.