Tweed Island

Tweed Island is an islet in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Tweed Island is situated nearby to the locality Brush Island, as well as near Round Island.

Type: Islet
Description: island in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America
Also known as: “Finch’s Island”, “Finche’s Island”, “Finchs Island”, “Tweed’s Island”, and “Tweeds Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bruce Museum and Greenwich station.

Bruce Museum

Museum

Photo: Noroton, Public domain.

The Bruce Museum is an art, science and natural history museum located in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95.

Greenwich station

Railway station

Photo: Picabu, Public domain.

Greenwich station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line located in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Bruce Park

Park

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greenwich and Byram.

Greenwich

Photo: Quintinsoloviev, CC BY 4.0.

Greenwich is a town of about 60,000 in Fairfield County, southwestern Connecticut. It is one of the wealthiest communities in America and is blessed with lush and beautiful scenery and many large and impressive houses.

Byram

Suburb

Byram is a neighborhood/section and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, Byram had a population of 4,493. Byram is situated 2 miles west of Tweed Island.

Cos Cob

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Cos Cob is a neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. It is located on the Connecticut shoreline in southern Fairfield County. Cos Cob is situated 2½ miles northeast of Tweed Island.

Tweed Island

Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.00875° or 41° 0′ 32″ north

Longitude

-73.61651° or 73° 36′ 59″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

87H8295M+F9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 22692528

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4844545

Wikidata ID

Q31831391

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Tweed Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Tweed Island”

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Localities in the Area

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