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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 Parishville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Parishville 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 Parishville:
- 44.629237, -74.813164
- 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 Parishville
- 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 Saint Lawrence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Lawrence County
- Since Parishville is near Franklin County, we have provided a link to its eBird sighting report:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin 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 Parishville
Communities Also Named Parishville ...
We found one communities that are also named Parishville.
Within New York, the name Parishville is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named Parishville in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Virginia
- Frederick 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 Virginia community of Parishville [Frederick County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Parishville ...
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.
- Coney Island
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Converse
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Converse is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Converse
- High Flats
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- High Flats is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Flats
- Irish Settlement
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Irish Settlement is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irish Settlement
- Kellogg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Kellogg is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellogg
- Parishville Center
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Skinnerville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Skinnerville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skinnerville
- Unionville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Unionville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
- Wildwood
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Wildwood is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
How Far From Parishville 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 community such as Parishville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Parishville and extending to:
- Canton, which is the Seat of Saint Lawrence County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<2> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Parishville to Canton, with an average speed<3> 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 five to six hours.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 145 miles [233.4 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 411 miles [661.4 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 24 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,568 miles [8,960.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,292 miles [10,126 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,168 miles [6,707.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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 Parishville 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Parishville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Parishville 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 Parishville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6292, Longitude: -74.8132 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.968 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.187 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.207 degrees. |
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