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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 Harmony Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Harmony Park 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 Harmony Park:
    • 41.500278, -73.626389
    • 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 Harmony Park
  • 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 Putnam County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Putnam County
    • Since Harmony Park is near Dutchess County and also Fairfield County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dutchess County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fairfield 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 Harmony Park

Communities Also Named Harmony Park ...

We found three communities that are also named Harmony Park.

Within New York, the name Harmony Park is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Jersey
      • Monmouth 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 New Jersey community of Harmony Park [Monmouth County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • 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 Nova Scotia community of Harmony Park.
    • Utah
      • Weber County
      • This Harmony Park is located in Weber County and lies 1,974 miles [3,176.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Harmony Park that is located in Putnam County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Harmony Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Harmony Park ...

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.

  • Deforest Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Deforest Corners is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deforest Corners
  • Farmers Mills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Farmers Mills is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmers Mills
  • Field Corners
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Field Corners is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Corners
  • Green Haven
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Green Haven is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Haven
  • Joyceland ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Joyceland is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyceland
  • Kent Cliffs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Kent Cliffs is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Cliffs
  • Kent Corners
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Kent Corners is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Corners
  • Kent Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Kent Hills is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Hills
  • Meads Corners
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Meads Corners is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meads Corners
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Milltown
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Milltown is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milltown
    • Pecksville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Pecksville is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecksville
    • Quaker Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Quaker Hill is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Hill
    • Sodom
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Sodom is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodom
    • Stormville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Towners
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Towners is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Towners

How Far From Harmony Park 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 Harmony Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Carmel, which is the Seat of Putnam County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Harmony Park to Albany, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 254 miles [408.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,646 miles [9,086.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,354 miles [10,225.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,230 miles [6,807.5 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 Harmony Park 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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Harmony Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Harmony Park 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 Harmony Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5003, Longitude: -73.6264       In this case, the coordinates for Harmony Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.628 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.29 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.138 degrees.