Providence, Rhode Island

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Graticule Mottto

"To the Coke!"

Preferred Raptor Defense System

Velociraptor Species: Crowbar

Aquaraptor Species: None identified

Officialish Welcome

Welcome! The Providence, Rhode Island graticule is at latitude 41, longitude -71. Note that this graticule contains nearly all of the state of Rhode Island, as well as bits of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the tip of Long Island, NY. And also, possibly, aquaraptors.

Today's Location: [Providence, RI]

Notable Dates

2008-05-26: First successful geohash in this graticule!

Daily Locations

2008-05-21: 41.179467°, -71.861537° Coordinates located in Long Island Sound. (No visits.)

2008-05-22: 41.972874°, -71.238697° Coordinates located near Norton, MA. (No visits.)

2008-05-23: 41.400246°, -71.722772° Coordinates located near Bradford, RI. (No visits.)

2008-05-24: 41.126648°, -71.547533° Coordinates located in Long Island Sound near Block Island, RI. (No visits.)

2008-05-25: 41.941774°, -71.182874° Coordinates located on the Wading River, near Norton Center, MA. (No visits.)

2008-05-26: 41.673128°, -71.607309° Coordinates located near bridge on Hill Farm Rd., Coventry, RI.

Meeting SUCCESSFUL!!! Click above for details and pics.

2008-05-27: 41.209677°, -71.101442° Coordinates located between Rhode Island Sound and Nantucket Sound. (No visits.)

2008-05-28: 41.68745°, -71.212208° Coordinates located in Mt. Hope Bay, between Bristol, RI and southern Fall River, MA. (No visits.)

2008-05-29: 41.464701°, -71.034125° Coordinates located at the mouth of Buzzards Bay, Westport, MA. (No visits.)

2008-05-30: 41.32272°, -71.704584° Coordinates located directly South of Weekapaug Beach near Charlestown and Westerly, RI (No visits yet.)

2008-05-31: 41.702114°, -71.838063° Coordinates located in woods behind industrial location, on Sterling Rd. (Route 14), West of Church St. in Sterling, CT. (No visits yet, but reachable!)

According to the correction on the main page, though, this should actually be 41.0374870832648067, -71.2812664767643918, which is not in CT but rather 10 miles southeast of Block Island, as seen here.

2008-06-01: 41.884571°, -71.487137° Coordinates located in woods near fire break, (possibly power line right-of-way) between Ridge Rd. and Douglas Pike (Route 7), south of Whipple Rd., near North Providence/Smithfield, RI border. (No visits yet, but reachable!)

Statistics

Starting May 21st, (reached/generated)

Land Locations - (0/5)
Water Locations - (1/7)

Total Location Reached - 1
Total Persons to Have Arrived - 2

Records

Consecutive Arrivals - 1
Consecutive Saturdays - 0
Most People - 5
Geohasher with most arrivals - 2 tied with 1 each

Participants

  • Patrick - the inaugural geohash in this graticule will be most...satisfying
  • Yusuke - Slightly disturbed by the above word choice.
  • Tim (aka Yusuke's Ride) - Less disturbed by the aforementioned word choice.
  • Shannon
  • The Nihilist