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 Bridgeton:
41.965654, -71.705068
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 Bridgeton
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 Providence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Bridgeton.
Within Rhode Island, the name Bridgeton is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Shelby County
This Bridgeton is located in Shelby County and lies 1,004 miles [1,615.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Bridgeton.
Indiana
Parke County
This Bridgeton is located in Parke County and lies 823 miles [1,324.5 km]<1> to the west of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Parke County community of Bridgeton.
Maine
Oxford 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 Maine community of Bridgeton [Oxford County].
Michigan
Newaygo County
This Bridgeton is located in Newaygo County and lies 728 miles [1,171.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newaygo County community of Bridgeton.
Missouri
Saint Louis County
This Bridgeton is located in Saint Louis County and lies 1,007 miles [1,620.6 km]<1> to the west of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Bridgeton.
New Jersey
Cumberland County
This Bridgeton is located in Cumberland County and lies 254 miles [408.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Bridgeton.
North Carolina
Craven County
This Bridgeton is located in Craven County and lies 552 miles [888.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Bridgeton.
Oregon
Multnomah 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 Oregon community of Bridgeton [Multnomah County].
Pennsylvania
York County
This Bridgeton is located in York County and lies 288 miles [463.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bridgeton that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Bridgeton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bridgeton ...
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 Bridgeton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bridgeton and extending to:
Providence, which is the Seat of Providence County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Bridgeton to Providence, 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.
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies 17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast (SE). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 351 miles [564.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,546 miles [8,925.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,253 miles [10,063.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,129 miles [6,645 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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- Bridgeton) 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 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 Bridgeton 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>
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 Bridgeton 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 Bridgeton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9657, Longitude: -71.7051 In this case, the coordinates for Bridgeton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.419 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.004 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.059 degrees.