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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 The Brick Store, we use the following websites to find information relevant to The Brick Store 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 The Brick Store:
    • 33.564549, -86.015247
    • 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 The Brick Store
  • 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 Talladega County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Talladega County
    • Since The Brick Store is near Calhoun County and also Saint Clair County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calhoun County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Clair County
  • 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 The Brick Store

Communities Also Named The Brick Store ...

We found two communities that are also named The Brick Store.

Within Alabama, the name The Brick Store is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This The Brick Store is located in New Castle County and lies 702 miles [1,129.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Brick Store that is located in Talladega County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of The Brick Store.
    • Georgia
      • Newton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of The Brick Store [Newton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near The Brick Store ...

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.

  • Blue Eye ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Blue Eye is located in Calhoun County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Eye
  • Coldwater
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Coldwater is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldwater
  • Curry
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Curry is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curry
  • Dry Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Dry Valley is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Valley
  • Echo Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Echo Hills is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Hills
  • Grant Town
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Grant Town is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Town
  • Hall Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hall Grove is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall Grove
  • Martins Mill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Martins Mill is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Mill
  • Plum Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Plum Springs is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Springs
  • Providence
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Providence is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence
  • Silver Run
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Silver Run is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Run
  • Sweet Home
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Sweet Home is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Home

How Far From The Brick Store to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as The Brick Store to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in The Brick Store and extending to:

  • Talladega, which is the Seat of Talladega County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from The Brick Store to Talladega, 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.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 83 miles [133.6 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 620 miles [997.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,516 miles [10,486.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,223 miles [11,624.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,100 miles [8,207.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- The Brick Store) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 The Brick Store 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.
<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 The Brick Store 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 The Brick Store. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5645, Longitude: -86.0152       In this case, the coordinates for The Brick Store have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.208 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.752 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.972 degrees.