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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 Old Westbury, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Old Westbury 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 Old Westbury:
    • 40.788207, -73.600626
    • 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 Old Westbury
  • 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 Old Westbury ...

We found one communities that share the name Old Westbury.

There is one other community in New York which is also named Old Westbury.

Beyond New York.

  • 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 Old Westbury [Queens County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Old Westbury ...

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.

  • Flower Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flower Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Hill
    • Flower Hill is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,903 people
  • Garden City
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
    • Garden City is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 22,224 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Garden City <3>
  • Garden City Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Glen Cove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Glen Head
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Greenvale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenvale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenvale
    • Greenvale is located in Nassau County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Greenvale <3>
  • Hicksville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hicksville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville
    • Hicksville is located in Nassau County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hicksville <3>
  • Locust Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Locust Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
    • Locust Grove is located in Nassau County
  • Mineola
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Muttontown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Muttontown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muttontown
    • Muttontown is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,673 people
  • Salisbury
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salisbury
    • Salisbury is located in Nassau County
  • Sea Cliff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sea Cliff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Cliff
    • Sea Cliff is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,056 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sea Cliff <3>
  • Searingtown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Searingtown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searingtown
    • Searingtown is located in Nassau County

How Far From Old Westbury 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 village such as Old Westbury to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Old Westbury and extending to:

  • Mineola, which is the Seat of Nassau County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<4> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Old Westbury 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 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 224 miles [360.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,673 miles [9,129.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,379 miles [10,266 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,255 miles [6,847.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

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

The official website for Nassau County: www.nassaucountyny.gov/

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

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 Old Westbury 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>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Old Westbury) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Westbury. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7882, Longitude: -73.6006    
<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 Old Westbury 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 305.694 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.249 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.454 degrees.




 

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