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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.
- 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.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Greenwood Village
- 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 Suffolk County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Suffolk County
- Since Greenwood Village is near Fairfield County and also New Haven County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fairfield County
- Open the eBird sighting report for New Haven 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 Greenwood Village
Communities Also Named Greenwood Village ...
We found six communities that are also named Greenwood Village.
Within New York, the name Greenwood Village is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of six communities that are located 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)
- Center Moriches
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Foxwood Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Foxwood Village is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxwood Village
- Gordon Heights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Gordon Heights is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Heights
- Manorville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Mastic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mastic Beach
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Middle Island
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Ridge
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ridge is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge
- 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)
- Wading River Landing is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wading River Landing
- Wildwood
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Wildwood is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
- Yaphank
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
How Far From Greenwood Village 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 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<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 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<5> 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).<6>
- 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).<7>
- 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).<8>'
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. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 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 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> | 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 Greenwood Village 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 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). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.21 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.71 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.082 degrees. |
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