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 Diamond Hill:
41.987877, -71.412002
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 Diamond Hill
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 seven communities that are also named Diamond Hill.
Within Rhode Island, the name Diamond Hill is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Diamond Hill is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,143 miles [1,839.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Diamond Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Diamond Hill.
Georgia
Madison County
This Diamond Hill is located in Madison County and lies 844 miles [1,358.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Diamond Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Diamond Hill.
New York
Herkimer 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 York community of Diamond Hill [Herkimer County].
North Carolina
Anson 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 North Carolina community of Diamond Hill [Anson County].
Virginia
Bedford County
This Diamond Hill is located in Bedford County and lies 550 miles [885.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Diamond Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Diamond Hill.
Campbell County
This Diamond Hill is located in Campbell County and lies 523 miles [841.7 km] to the southwest of the Diamond Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Diamond Hill.
Lynchburg City
This Diamond Hill is located in Lynchburg City and lies 518 miles [833.6 km] to the southwest of the Diamond Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lynchburg City community of Diamond Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Diamond Hill ...
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.
Benjamins Landing (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Benjamins Landing is located in Norfolk County (MA)
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 Diamond Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Diamond Hill and extending to:
Providence, which is the Seat of Providence County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Diamond Hill to Providence, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies 11 miles [17.7 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 364 miles [585.8 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,533 miles [8,904.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,239 miles [10,040.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,116 miles [6,624.1 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Diamond Hill) 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 Diamond Hill 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 Diamond Hill 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 Diamond Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9879, Longitude: -71.4120 In this case, the coordinates for Diamond Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.241 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.807 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.918 degrees.