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 Fruit Hill:
41.850100, -71.462003
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 Fruit 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 four communities that are also named Fruit Hill.
Within Rhode Island, the name Fruit Hill is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
Christian County
This Fruit Hill is located in Christian County and lies 910 miles [1,464.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fruit Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Christian County community of Fruit Hill.
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Fruit Hill is located in Hamilton County and lies 703 miles [1,131.4 km]<1> to the west of the Fruit Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Fruit Hill.
South Carolina
Edgefield 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 South Carolina community of Fruit Hill [Edgefield County].
Saluda County
This Fruit Hill is located in Saluda County and lies 785 miles [1,263.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Fruit Hill that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saluda County community of Fruit Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fruit 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.
Christian Hill (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
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 Fruit Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fruit Hill and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Fruit Hill to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,540 miles [8,915.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,246 miles [10,052 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,123 miles [6,635.3 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fruit 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Fruit 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 Fruit 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 Fruit Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8501, Longitude: -71.4620 In this case, the coordinates for Fruit Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.29 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.84 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.009 degrees.