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 Seaside:
40.535278, -74.178889
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.
We found ten communities that share the name Seaside.
There is one other community in New York which is also named Seaside.
Beyond New York, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In New York ...
Queens County
This Seaside is located in Queens County and lies 18 miles [29 km]<1> to the east of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Seaside.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alaska
This community is historichttp://www.waymarking.com/wm/search.aspx?f=1&lat=40.535278&lon=-74.178889&t=6 and we have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for Seaside.
California
Monterey County
This Seaside is located in Monterey County and lies 2,555 miles [4,111.9 km]<1> to the west of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monterey County community of Seaside.
Connecticut
New London County
This Seaside is located in New London County and lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Seaside.
Florida
Hillsborough 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 Florida community of Seaside [Hillsborough County].
Monroe County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Seaside [Monroe County].
Walton County
This Seaside is located in Walton County and lies 973 miles [1,565.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Walton County community of Seaside.
North Carolina
Brunswick County
This Seaside is located in Brunswick County and lies 516 miles [830.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Seaside.
Oregon
Clatsop County
This Seaside is located in Clatsop County and lies 2,488 miles [4,004 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clatsop County community of Seaside.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Seaside is located in Charleston County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Seaside that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Seaside.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Seaside ...
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.
Barber (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barber have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Great Kills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
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 Seaside to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Seaside and extending to:
Saint George, which is the Seat of Richmond County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Seaside to Saint George, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 148 miles [238.2 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 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 189 miles [304.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,708 miles [9,186.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,414 miles [10,322.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,290 miles [6,904.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Seaside) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Seaside. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5353, Longitude: -74.1789 In this case, the coordinates for Seaside have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Seaside 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>
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.
<4>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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 Seaside 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 306.064 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.627 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.818 degrees.