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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 Long Beach, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Long Beach 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 Long Beach:
    • 40.588685, -73.664847
    • 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 Long Beach
  • 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 Nassau County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Nassau County
    • Since Long Beach is near Queens County and also Kings County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Queens County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Kings 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 Long Beach

Communities Also Named Long Beach ...

We found nineteen communities that are also named Long Beach.

There is one other community in New York that is also named Long Beach.

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

  • Communities Located In New York ...
    • Queens 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 York community of Long Beach [Queens County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • This Long Beach is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,467 miles [3,970.3 km]<2> to the west of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Long Beach.
    • Indiana
      • LaPorte County
      • This Long Beach is located in LaPorte County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<2> to the west of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaPorte County community of Long Beach.
    • Maine
      • Cumberland County
      • This Long Beach is located in Cumberland County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Long Beach.
      • York County
      • This Long Beach is located in York County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km] to the northeast of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Long Beach.
    • Maryland
      • Calvert County
      • This Long Beach is located in Calvert County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<2> to the southwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Long Beach.
    • Massachusetts
      • Essex 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 Massachusetts community of Long Beach [Essex County].
    • Michigan
      • Muskegon 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 Michigan community of Long Beach [Muskegon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Pope County
      • This Long Beach is located in Pope County and lies 1,147 miles [1,845.9 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pope County community of Long Beach.
    • Mississippi
      • Harrison County
      • This Long Beach is located in Harrison County and lies 1,118 miles [1,799.2 km]<2> to the southwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Long Beach.
    • Missouri
      • Taney County
      • This Long Beach is located in Taney County and lies 1,080 miles [1,738.1 km]<2> to the west of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Taney County community of Long Beach.
    • New Jersey
      • Ocean County
      • This Long Beach is located in Ocean County and lies 67 miles [107.8 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Long Beach.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This Long Beach lies 1,123 miles [1,807.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
    • North Carolina
      • Brunswick County
      • This Long Beach is located in Brunswick County and lies 522 miles [840.1 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Long Beach.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Long Beach lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
    • Ohio
      • Ottawa County
      • This Long Beach is located in Ottawa County and lies 496 miles [798.2 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ottawa County community of Long Beach.
    • Ontario
      • This Long Beach lies 371 miles [597.1 km]<2> to the northwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
    • Washington
      • Pacific County
      • This Long Beach is located in Pacific County and lies 2,512 miles [4,042.7 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Long Beach that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pacific County community of Long Beach.
      • Pierce 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 Washington community of Long Beach [Pierce County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Long Beach ...

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.

How Far From Long Beach 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 city such as Long Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Mineola, which is the Seat of Nassau County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Long Beach to Mineola, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 142 miles [228.5 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 213 miles [342.8 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,684 miles [9,147.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,389 miles [10,282.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,266 miles [6,865.5 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 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 Long Beach 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- Long Beach) 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 Long Beach 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 Long Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5887, Longitude: -73.6648    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.755 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.285 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.572 degrees.