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 Lawtons:
41.556464, -71.301608
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.
We found one communities that are also named Lawtons.
Within Rhode Island, the name Lawtons is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, there is another community also named Lawtons in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New York
Erie County
This Lawtons is located in Erie County and lies 396 miles [637.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lawtons that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Lawtons.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lawtons ...
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.
Clarks Village (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
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 Lawtons to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lawtons and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could walk a straight line from Lawtons to Providence, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 353 miles [568.1 km] to the west southwest (WSW). 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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,545 miles [8,923.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,249 miles [10,056.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,126 miles [6,640.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
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- Lawtons) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Lawtons 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 Lawtons. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5565, Longitude: -71.3016
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.237 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.73 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.085 degrees.