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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 Sawyers, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sawyers 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 Sawyers:
- 43.180918, -70.889225
- 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 Sawyers
- 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 Sawyers is near York County and also Rockingham 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 Rockingham 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 Sawyers
Communities Also Named Sawyers ...
We found one communities that are also named Sawyers.
Within New Hampshire, the name Sawyers is unique.
Beyond New Hampshire, there is another community also named Sawyers in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Tennessee
- Hamilton 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 Tennessee community of Sawyers [Hamilton County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sawyers ...
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.
- Christian Shore
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Christian Shore is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Shore
- Crocketts Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Crocketts Crossing is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocketts Crossing
- Dover
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Foundry
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Foundry is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foundry
- Gates Corner
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Gates Corner is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates Corner
- Great Works
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Great Works is located in York County (ME)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Works
- Green Acre
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Green Acre is located in York County (ME)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acre
- Lee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lee is located in Strafford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,597 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lee <2>
- Rosemary
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Rosemary is located in York County (ME)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosemary
How Far From Sawyers to ...
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 Sawyers to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Sawyers and extending to:
- Dover, which is the Seat of Strafford County, lies just to the North Northeast.
- Concord, which is the State Capital of New Hampshire, lies 32 miles [51.5 km]<3> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Sawyers to Concord, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 435 miles [700.1 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 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,465 miles [8,795.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- 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).<7>
- 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).<8>'
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 Sawyers 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sawyers) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Sawyers 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 Sawyers. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1809, Longitude: -70.8892 In this case, the coordinates for Sawyers have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.746 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.452 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.066 degrees. |
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