Rhode Island
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Town of New Shoreham

New Shoreham

Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in , located approximately 9 miles south of mainland and 14 miles east of Long Island's Montauk Point.
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  • Type: Town with 1,410 residents
  • Description: town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
  • Also known as: “Block Island”, “Block Island Village”, “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”, “New Shoreham, RI”, “Old Harbor”, and “The Harbor”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Block Island and Block Island State Airport.

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During the winter months is the very picture of a sleepy, seaside town, with a local population of around 900 people. In summer, the island's population explodes to nearly 10,000 at any given time, and many thousands more on busy weekends or holidays.

Aerodrome
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During the winter months Block Island is the very picture of a sleepy, seaside town, with a local population of around 900 people. In summer, the island's population explodes to nearly 10,000 at any given time, and many thousands more on busy weekends or holidays.

Museum
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Block Island Southeast Light is a lighthouse located on Mohegan Bluffs at the southeastern corner of , . It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1997 as one of the most architecturally sophisticated lighthouses built in the in the 19th century.

New Shoreham

Latitude
41.17221° or 41° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
-71.5573° or 71° 33′ 26″ west
Population
1,410
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
87HC5CCV+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158906575
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5223587
Wiki­data ID
Q2448480
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“New Shoreham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيو شورهام”
  • Catalan: “New Shoreham”
  • Chechen: “Нью-Шорем”
  • Dutch: “New Shoreham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو شورهام”
  • Finnish: “New Shoreham”
  • French: “New Shoreham”
  • German: “New Shoreham”
  • Haitian: “New Shoreham, Rhode”
  • Haitian: “New Shoreham”
  • Hebrew: “ניו שורהם”
  • Hungarian: “New Shoreham”
  • Italian: “New Shoreham”
  • Japanese: “ニューショアハム”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Shoreham”
  • Polish: “New Shoreham”
  • Portuguese: “New Shoreham”
  • Spanish: “New Shoreham (Rhode Island)”
  • Spanish: “New Shoreham”
  • Swedish: “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”
  • Swedish: “New Shoreham”
  • Tatar: “Нью-Шорем”
  • Turkish: “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “New Shoreham”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Шорем”
  • Urdu: “نیو شورہیم، روڈ آئلینڈ”
  • Volapük: “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”
  • Volapük: “New Shoreham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “New Shoreham”
  • Welsh: “New Shoreham, Rhode Island”
  • Welsh: “New Shoreham”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fountain Square and Empire Theater.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “New Shoreham”. Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.