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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 Fort Wadsworth, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fort Wadsworth and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Fort Wadsworth:
    • 40.605605, -74.059894
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Fort Wadsworth
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Fort Wadsworth ...

We found one communities that share the name Fort Wadsworth.

Within New York, the name Fort Wadsworth is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Fort Wadsworth in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Dinwiddie 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 Virginia community of Fort Wadsworth [Dinwiddie County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fort Wadsworth ...

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.

  • Bath Beach
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Bulls Head
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bulls Head have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulls Head
    • Bulls Head is located in Richmond County
  • Cobble Hill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cobble Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobble Hill
    • Cobble Hill is located in Kings County
  • Coney Island
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Elm Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elm Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Park
    • Elm Park is located in Richmond County
  • Flatbush
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flatbush have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbush
    • Flatbush is located in Kings County
  • Flatlands
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Fox Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fox Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hills
    • Fox Hills is located in Richmond County
  • Graniteville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Gravesend
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Great Kills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Greenridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenridge
    • Greenridge is located in Richmond County
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    • Greenville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
      • Greenville is located in Hudson County (NJ)
    • Heartland Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heartland Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heartland Village
      • Heartland Village is located in Richmond County
    • Mariners Harbor
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mariners Harbor have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariners Harbor
      • Mariners Harbor is located in Richmond County
    • Old Place
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Place have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Place
      • Old Place is located in Richmond County
    • Park Slope
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Park Slope have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Slope
      • Park Slope is located in Kings County
    • Red Hook
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rosebank
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rosebank have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebank
      • Rosebank is located in Richmond County
    • Sheepshead Bay
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Sunnyside
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunnyside have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
      • Sunnyside is located in Richmond County
    • Willowbrook
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willowbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowbrook
      • Willowbrook is located in Richmond County

How Far From Fort Wadsworth to ...

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 Fort Wadsworth to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Fort Wadsworth and extending to:

  • Saint George, which is the Seat of Richmond County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 142 miles [228.5 km]<4> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Fort Wadsworth to Albany, with an average speed<5>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 197 miles [317 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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,700 miles [9,173.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,406 miles [10,309.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,283 miles [6,892.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fort Wadsworth. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Fort Wadsworth 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Fort Wadsworth) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Wadsworth. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6056, Longitude: -74.0599    
<5>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.
<6>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 Fort Wadsworth to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.986 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.55 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.735 degrees.




 

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