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 Pottersville:
41.525104, -71.132822
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 Pottersville
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 Newport County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Pottersville.
Within Rhode Island, the name Pottersville is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Pike County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pottersville [Pike County].
Indiana
Owen County
This Pottersville is located in Owen County and lies 839 miles [1,350.2 km]<2> to the west of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Pottersville.
Massachusetts
Bristol County
This Pottersville is located in Bristol County and lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the north of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bristol County community of Pottersville.
Missouri
Callaway County
Although located in Callaway County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Callaway County community of Pottersville.
Howell County
This Pottersville is located in Howell County and lies 1,164 miles [1,873.3 km]<2> to the west of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howell County community of Pottersville.
New Jersey
Hunterdon County
This Pottersville is located in Hunterdon County and lies 194 miles [312.2 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hunterdon County community of Pottersville.
New York
Warren County
This Pottersville is located in Warren County and lies 204 miles [328.3 km]<2> to the northwest of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Pottersville.
Ohio
Columbiana County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Columbiana County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbiana County community of Pottersville.
Vermont
Lamoille County
This Pottersville is located in Lamoille County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Pottersville that is located in Newport County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamoille County community of Pottersville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pottersville ...
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, 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 Pottersville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pottersville and extending to:
Newport, which is the Seat of Newport County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Pottersville to Newport, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies 25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest (NW). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 360 miles [579.4 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 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,539 miles [8,914.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,242 miles [10,045.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,120 miles [6,630.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Pottersville 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Pottersville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Pottersville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Pottersville 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 Pottersville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5251, Longitude: -71.1328 In this case, the coordinates for Pottersville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.141 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.618 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.027 degrees.