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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 Place, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Place and the surrounding area.
- 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 Place:
- 43.354172, -71.028066
- 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 Place
- 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 Strafford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Strafford County
- Since Place is near York County and also Belknap County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for York County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Belknap 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 Place
Communities Also Named Place ...
We found one communities that are also named Place.
Within New Hampshire, the name Place is unique.
Beyond New Hampshire, there is another community also named Place in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
- Knox County
- 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 Kentucky community of Place [Knox County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Place ...
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.
- Bow Lake Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hills Corner
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Hills Corner is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills Corner
- Hornetown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Hornetown is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hornetown
- Lockes Corner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Lockes Corner is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockes Corner
- Merrill Corners
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Merrill Corners is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill Corners
- Town House
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Town House is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town House
- Union
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Union is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Welshs Corner
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Welshs Corner is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welshs Corner
How Far From Place to ...
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 Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Place and extending to:
- Dover, which is the Seat of Strafford County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Place to Dover, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Concord, which is the State Capital of New Hampshire, lies 27 miles [43.5 km] to the west southwest (WSW). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 438 miles [704.9 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 18 days and walking would take 25 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,464 miles [8,793.5 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 6,175 miles [9,937.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,051 miles [6,519.5 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 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 Place 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Place) 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 Place 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 Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.3542, Longitude: -71.0281 In this case, the coordinates for Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.802 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.545 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.039 degrees. |
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