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 Greystone:
41.866488, -71.490338
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 Greystone
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 twelve communities that are also named Greystone.
Within Rhode Island, the name Greystone is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Santa Clara County
This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Greystone [Santa Clara County].
Colorado
Moffat County
This Greystone is located in Moffat County and lies 1,917 miles [3,085.1 km]<2> to the west of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moffat County community of Greystone.
Connecticut
Litchfield County
This Greystone is located in Litchfield County and lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<2> to the west of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Litchfield County community of Greystone.
Georgia
Hall County
This Greystone is located in Hall County and lies 847 miles [1,363.1 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Greystone.
Kansas
Wilson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Greystone [Wilson County].
New York
Westchester County
This Greystone is located in Westchester County and lies 138 miles [222.1 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westchester County community of Greystone.
North Carolina
Onslow County
This Greystone is located in Onslow County and lies 587 miles [944.7 km]<2> to the southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Greystone.
Vance County
This Greystone is located in Vance County and lies 528 miles [849.7 km] to the southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vance County community of Greystone.
Ohio
Butler County
This Greystone is located in Butler County and lies 700 miles [1,126.5 km]<2> to the west of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Greystone.
Tennessee
Greene County
This Greystone is located in Greene County and lies 720 miles [1,158.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Greystone.
Virginia
Henry County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Greystone [Henry County].
West Virginia
Monongalia County
This Greystone is located in Monongalia County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Greystone that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of Greystone.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Greystone ...
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 Greystone to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Greystone and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 356 miles [572.9 km]<2> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Greystone to White House, with an average speed<4>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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,541 miles [8,917.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,247 miles [10,053.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
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).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Greystone, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>
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- Greystone) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Greystone 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.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Greystone 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 Greystone. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8665, Longitude: -71.4903 In this case, the coordinates for Greystone have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.305 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.859 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.013 degrees.