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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 Battery Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Battery Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Battery Park:
    • 36.996537, -76.574120
    • 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 Battery Park
  • 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 Isle of Wight County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Isle of Wight County
    • Since Battery Park is near Newport News City and also Suffolk City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Newport News City
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Suffolk City
  • 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 Battery Park

Communities Also Named Battery Park ...

We found two communities that are also named Battery Park.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Battery Park.

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

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Henrico 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 Virginia community of Battery Park [Henrico County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Montgomery County
      • This Battery Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<2> to the north of the Battery Park that is located in Isle of Wight County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Battery Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Battery Park ...

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.

  • Cedar Crest Hall
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Cedar Crest Hall is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crest Hall
  • Cedar Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cedar Grove is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Cedar Point
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Cedar Point is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
  • College Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • College Park is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Park
  • Deep Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Deep Creek is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
  • Deer Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Deer Park is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Park
  • Eclipse
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Eclipse is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eclipse
  • Foursquare
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Foursquare is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foursquare
  • Fox Corner
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Fox Corner is located in Hampton City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Corner
  • Holly Point
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Holly Point is located in Isle of Wight County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Point
  • Horseshoe Point
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Horseshoe Point is located in Suffolk City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe Point
  • Ivy Farms
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Ivy Farms is located in Newport News City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivy Farms
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Lone Star Lakes
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Lone Star Lakes is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star Lakes
    • Longview
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Longview is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
    • Magnet
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Magnet is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnet
    • Mammoth Oak
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Mammoth Oak is located in Newport News City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth Oak
    • Maple Grove
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Maple Grove is located in Newport News City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
    • Maxwell Garden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Maxwell Garden is located in Newport News City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell Garden
    • Moonlight
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Moonlight is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moonlight
    • Muddy Cross
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Muddy Cross is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy Cross
    • Nicewood
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Nicewood is located in Newport News City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicewood
    • Oyster Point
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Oyster Point is located in Newport News City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Point
    • Rescue
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Rescue is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rescue
    • Rollingwood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Rollingwood is located in Isle of Wight County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollingwood
    • Sandy Bottom
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Sandy Bottom is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Bottom
    • Sleepy Lake
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Sleepy Lake is located in Suffolk City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Lake

How Far From Battery Park to ...

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Battery Park and extending to:

  • Isle of Wight, which is the Seat of Isle of Wight County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Battery Park to Isle of Wight, 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 60 miles [96.6 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 133 miles [214 km] to the north (N). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,958 miles [9,588.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,653 miles [10,707 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,534 miles [7,296.8 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Battery Park 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Battery Park) 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 Battery Park 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 Battery Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9965, Longitude: -76.5741       In this case, the coordinates for Battery Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.73 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.966 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.243 degrees.