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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 Greenwood Village, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Greenwood Village 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 Greenwood Village:
    • 40.834722, -72.790833
    • 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 Greenwood Village
  • 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 Greenwood Village ...

We found six communities that share the name Greenwood Village.

Within New York, the name Greenwood Village is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Arapahoe County
      • This Greenwood Village is located in Arapahoe County and lies 1,686 miles [2,713.4 km]<1> to the west of the Greenwood Village that is located in Suffolk County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arapahoe County community of Greenwood Village.
    • New Jersey
      • Mercer 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 Greenwood Village [Mercer County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Butler County
      • This Greenwood Village is located in Butler County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the west of the Greenwood Village that is located in Suffolk County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Greenwood Village.
    • South Carolina
      • Greenwood County
      • This Greenwood Village is located in Greenwood County and lies 688 miles [1,107.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Greenwood Village that is located in Suffolk County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenwood County community of Greenwood Village.
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Greenwood Village is located in Harris County and lies 1,471 miles [2,367.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Greenwood Village that is located in Suffolk County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Greenwood Village.
    • Utah
      • Weber County
      • This Greenwood Village is located in Weber County and lies 2,024 miles [3,257.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Greenwood Village that is located in Suffolk County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Greenwood Village.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Greenwood Village ...

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.

  • Baiting Hollow
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baiting Hollow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baiting Hollow
    • Baiting Hollow is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baiting Hollow <4>
  • Center Moriches
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Foxwood Village
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foxwood Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxwood Village
    • Foxwood Village is located in Suffolk County
  • Gordon Heights
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gordon Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Heights
    • Gordon Heights is located in Suffolk County
  • Manorville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manorville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manorville
    • Manorville is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manorville <4>
  • Mastic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mastic have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mastic
    • Mastic is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mastic <4>
  • Mastic Beach
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Middle Island
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middle Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Island
    • Middle Island is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Middle Island <4>
  • Ridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge
    • Ridge is located in Suffolk County
  • Riverhead
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Wading River
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Wading River Landing
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wading River Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wading River Landing
    • Wading River Landing is located in Suffolk County
  • Wildwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wildwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
    • Wildwood is located in Suffolk County
  • Yaphank
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)

How Far From Greenwood Village 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 Greenwood Village to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Greenwood Village and extending to:

  • Riverhead, which is the Seat of Suffolk County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Greenwood Village 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 261 miles [420 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,637 miles [9,071.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,341 miles [10,204.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,218 miles [6,788.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

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

The official website for Suffolk County: www.co.suffolk.ny.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Greenwood Village) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Greenwood Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8347, Longitude: -72.7908       In this case, the coordinates for Greenwood Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Greenwood Village 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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Greenwood Village 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 305.21 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.71 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.082 degrees.




 

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