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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 Bridgewater:
39.864557, -75.397971
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 Bridgewater
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 Delaware County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 25 communities that are also named Bridgewater.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Bridgewater.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of 23 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Beaver County
This Bridgewater is located in Beaver County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaver County community of Bridgewater.
Bucks County
This Bridgewater is located in Bucks County and lies 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Bridgewater.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
Litchfield County
This Bridgewater is located in Litchfield County and lies 156 miles [251.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Litchfield County community of Bridgewater.
Georgia
Gwinnett County
This Bridgewater is located in Gwinnett County and lies 629 miles [1,012.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Bridgewater.
Illinois
Greene 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 Illinois community of Bridgewater [Greene County].
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Bridgewater is located in Hamilton County and lies 558 miles [898 km]<1> to the west of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Bridgewater.
Iowa
Adair County
This Bridgewater is located in Adair County and lies 1,013 miles [1,630.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adair County community of Bridgewater.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Bridgewater is located in Aroostook County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Bridgewater.
Massachusetts
Plymouth County
This Bridgewater is located in Plymouth County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Bridgewater.
Michigan
Washtenaw County
This Bridgewater is located in Washtenaw County and lies 470 miles [756.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washtenaw County community of Bridgewater.
Minnesota
Rice 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 Minnesota community of Bridgewater [Rice County].
Missouri
Nodaway County
Although located in Nodaway County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nodaway County community of Bridgewater.
New Hampshire
Grafton County
This Bridgewater is located in Grafton County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grafton County community of Bridgewater.
New Jersey
Somerset 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 New Jersey community of Bridgewater [Somerset County].
New York
Oneida County
This Bridgewater is located in Oneida County and lies 208 miles [334.7 km]<1> to the north of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Bridgewater.
North Carolina
Burke County
This Bridgewater is located in Burke County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burke County community of Bridgewater.
Nova Scotia
This Bridgewater lies 637 miles [1,025.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
Ohio
Columbiana County
This Bridgewater is located in Columbiana County and lies 301 miles [484.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbiana County community of Bridgewater.
Guernsey County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Guernsey County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Bridgewater.
Williams 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 Ohio community of Bridgewater [Williams County].
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Bridgewater.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Bridgewater is located in Anderson County and lies 548 miles [881.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Bridgewater.
South Dakota
McCook County
This Bridgewater is located in McCook County and lies 1,163 miles [1,871.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCook County community of Bridgewater.
Vermont
Windsor County
This Bridgewater is located in Windsor County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windsor County community of Bridgewater.
Virginia
Rockingham County
This Bridgewater is located in Rockingham County and lies 216 miles [347.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bridgewater that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Bridgewater.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bridgewater ...
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, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bridgewater to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bridgewater and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Bridgewater to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 110 miles [177 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,787 miles [9,313.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,493 miles [10,449.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,370 miles [7,032.8 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bridgewater) 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 Bridgewater 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>
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 Bridgewater, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8646, Longitude: -75.3980 In this case, the coordinates for Bridgewater have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.85 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.409 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.631 degrees.