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 Blissville:
40.734722, -73.937778
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 Blissville
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 Queens County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Blissville.
Within New York, the name Blissville is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
New London County
This community is historic<1> and although located in New London County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Blissville.
Massachusetts
Franklin County
This Blissville is located in Franklin County and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Blissville that is located in Queens County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Blissville.
New Brunswick
This Blissville lies 501 miles [806.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Blissville that is located in Queens County.
Vermont
Rutland County
This Blissville is located in Rutland County and lies 200 miles [321.9 km]<2> to the north of the Blissville that is located in Queens County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutland County community of Blissville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Blissville ...
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 Blissville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Blissville and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 133 miles [214 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Blissville to Albany, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 207 miles [333.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,690 miles [9,157.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,396 miles [10,293.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,272 miles [6,875.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Blissville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Blissville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Blissville 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 Blissville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7347, Longitude: -73.9378 In this case, the coordinates for Blissville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.90 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.473 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.624 degrees.