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 Tompkinsville:
40.636493, -74.085419
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 Tompkinsville
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 Richmond County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Tompkinsville.
Within New York, the name Tompkinsville is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Choctaw County
This Tompkinsville is located in Choctaw County and lies 966 miles [1,554.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Tompkinsville that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Choctaw County community of Tompkinsville.
Kentucky
Monroe County
This Tompkinsville is located in Monroe County and lies 681 miles [1,096 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Tompkinsville that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Tompkinsville.
Maryland
Charles County
This Tompkinsville is located in Charles County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Tompkinsville that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Tompkinsville.
Missouri
Monroe County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Monroe County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Tompkinsville.
Pennsylvania
Lackawanna County
This Tompkinsville is located in Lackawanna County and lies 103 miles [165.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Tompkinsville that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lackawanna County community of Tompkinsville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Tompkinsville ...
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 Tompkinsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Tompkinsville and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Tompkinsville to Albany, with an average speed<3>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 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 197 miles [317 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,700 miles [9,173.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,406 miles [10,309.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,283 miles [6,892.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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- Tompkinsville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Tompkinsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Tompkinsville 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 Tompkinsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6365, Longitude: -74.0854 In this case, the coordinates for Tompkinsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.998 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.568 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.733 degrees.