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 River View:
41.711212, -71.370054
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 River View
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 Kent County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named River View.
Within Rhode Island, the name River View is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Chambers County
This River View is located in Chambers County and lies 973 miles [1,565.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chambers County community of River View.
Maryland
Calvert County
This River View is located in Calvert County and lies 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of River View.
New Brunswick
This River View lies 419 miles [674.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the River View that is located in Kent County.
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of River View [Mecklenburg County].
Ohio
Butler County
This River View is located in Butler County and lies 709 miles [1,141 km]<1> to the west of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of River View.
Pennsylvania
Armstrong County
This River View is located in Armstrong County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the west of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Armstrong County community of River View.
Lehigh County
This River View is located in Lehigh County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km] to the west southwest of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lehigh County community of River View.
Washington County
This River View is located in Washington County and lies 459 miles [738.7 km] to the west of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of River View.
Tennessee
Claiborne County
This River View is located in Claiborne County and lies 746 miles [1,200.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Claiborne County community of River View.
Virginia
Warren County
This River View is located in Warren County and lies 407 miles [655 km]<1> to the west southwest of the River View that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of River View.
West Virginia
Fayette 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 West Virginia community of River View [Fayette County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near River View ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as River View to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in River View and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from River View 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 5,542 miles [8,919 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>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- River View) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 River View, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 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 River View 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 River View 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 River View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7112, Longitude: -71.3701 In this case, the coordinates for River View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.255 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.777 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.038 degrees.