Rhode Island
South County
Town of Westerly

Watch Hill

Watch Hill is a district in , which is a town in . Watch Hill is a wealthy, summer tourist district comprised of two main streets. Most of the homes are summer mansions.
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  • Type: Suburb with 154 residents
  • Description: village in Westerly, Rhode Island
  • Also known as: “Watch Hill Historic District” and “Watch Hill, Rhode Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Watch Hill Lighthouse and Ocean House.

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The in Watch Hill, Rhode Island has served as a nautical beacon for ships since 1745, when the Rhode Island colonial government constructed a watchtower and beacon during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.

Resort
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is a large, Victorian-style waterfront hotel originally constructed in 1868 on Bluff Avenue in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The original 1868 hotel closed in 2003; it was demolished in 2005 and a new facility opened in 2010 on the same site which retained much of the original structure's form and appearance, as well as the original name.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Misquamicut.

Suburb
is a census-designated place and fire district in southern , United States. It is part of the town of . The population was listed as 434 in the 2020 census. is situated 2½ miles east of Watch Hill.

Watch Hill

Latitude
41.3117° or 41° 18′ 42″ north
Longitude
-71.8563° or 71° 51′ 23″ west
Population
154
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
Open location code
87HC846V+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158814873
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5225543
Wiki­data ID
Q6166526
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Watch Hill” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “واتش هيل”
  • Cebuano: “Watch Hill”
  • Chechen: “Вотч-Гилл”
  • Chinese: “守望山”
  • Chinese: “罗得岛州沃奇山”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “واتش هيل”
  • French: “Watch Hill”
  • German: “Watch Hill”
  • Gilaki: “واچ هیل (رؤد آیلند)”
  • Gilaki: “واچ هیل”
  • Irish: “Watch Hill”
  • Italian: “Watch Hill”
  • Ladin: “Watch Hill”
  • Persian: “واچ هیل”
  • Polish: “Watch Hill”
  • Portuguese: “Watch Hill”
  • Serbian: “Воч Хил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Watch Hill, Rhode Island”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Watch Hill”
  • Spanish: “Watch Hill”
  • Swedish: “Watch Hill”
  • Tatar: “Вотч-Гилл”
  • Turkish: “Watch Hill”
  • Ukrainian: “Вотч-Гілл”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Watch Hill”. Photo: Juliancolton, Public domain.