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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Adsit, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Adsit and the surrounding area.

  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Adsit:
    • 36.827371, -77.698045
    • 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 Adsit
  • 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 Brunswick County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Brunswick County
    • Since Adsit is near Greensville County and also Dinwiddie County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Greensville County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dinwiddie County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Adsit

Communities Also Named Adsit ...

We found one communities that are also named Adsit.

Within Virginia, the name Adsit is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Adsit in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Wisconsin
      • Dane 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 Wisconsin community of Adsit [Dane County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Adsit ...

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.

  • Cool Spring
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Cool Spring is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cool Spring
  • Cowie Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Cowie Corner is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowie Corner
  • Dolphin
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Dolphin is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolphin
  • Fields Crossroads
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Fields Crossroads is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Crossroads
  • Freeman
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Freeman is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
  • Pleasant Shade
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Pleasant Shade is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Shade
  • Purdy
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Purdy is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purdy
  • Radium
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Radium is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
  • Rivers Edge
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Rivers Edge is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rivers Edge
  • Rocky Ford
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Rocky Ford is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
  • Sturgeonville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Sturgeonville is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturgeonville
  • Walnut Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
  • Willow Oaks
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Willow Oaks is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Oaks

How Far From Adsit to ...

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 Adsit to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Adsit and extending to:

  • Lawrenceville, which is the Seat of Brunswick County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Adsit to Lawrenceville, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 51 miles [82.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 147 miles [236.6 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,014 miles [9,678.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,712 miles [10,801.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,591 miles [7,388.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 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 Adsit 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Adsit) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Adsit 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 Adsit. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8274, Longitude: -77.6980       In this case, the coordinates for Adsit have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.381 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.683 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.748 degrees.