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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 Bridge:
42.980344, -76.446047
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 Bridge
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 Onondaga County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Long Bridge.
Within New York, the name Long Bridge is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
Avoyelles Parish
This Long Bridge is located in Avoyelles Parish and lies 1,187 miles [1,910.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Long Bridge that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Avoyelles Parish community of Long Bridge.
Lafayette Parish
This Long Bridge is located in Lafayette Parish and lies 1,226 miles [1,973.1 km] to the southwest of the Long Bridge that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lafayette Parish community of Long Bridge.
New Jersey
Warren County
This Long Bridge is located in Warren County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Long Bridge that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Long Bridge.
Pennsylvania
Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Long Bridge [Westmoreland County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Long Bridge ...
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.
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 Long Bridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Long Bridge and extending to:
Syracuse, which is the Seat of Onondaga County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Long Bridge to Syracuse, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 137 miles [220.5 km] to the east (E). 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 283 miles [455.4 km] to the south (S). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,701 miles [9,174.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,422 miles [10,335.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,297 miles [6,915.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Long Bridge) 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 Long Bridge 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 Long Bridge 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 Bridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9803, Longitude: -76.4460 In this case, the coordinates for Long Bridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.19 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.29 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.761 degrees.