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 Spragueville:
41.895289, -71.543111
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 Spragueville
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 six communities that are also named Spragueville.
Within Rhode Island, the name Spragueville is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Iowa
Jackson County
This Spragueville is located in Jackson County and lies 967 miles [1,556.2 km]<1> to the west of the Spragueville that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Spragueville.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Spragueville is located in Aroostook County and lies 370 miles [595.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Spragueville that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Spragueville.
New Hampshire
Cheshire County
This Spragueville is located in Cheshire County and lies 78 miles [125.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Spragueville that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cheshire County community of Spragueville.
New York
Jefferson County
This Spragueville is located in Jefferson County and lies 259 miles [416.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Spragueville that is located in Providence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Spragueville.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Cuyahoga County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Spragueville.
Pennsylvania
Monroe 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 Pennsylvania community of Spragueville [Monroe County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Spragueville ...
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 Spragueville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Spragueville and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies just to the southeast (SE).
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 Spragueville 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 6,248 miles [10,055.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,125 miles [6,638.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Spragueville) 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 Spragueville, 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Spragueville 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 Spragueville 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 Spragueville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8953, Longitude: -71.5431
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.332 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.894 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.022 degrees.