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 Mill Brook:
41.963428, -73.119555
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 Mill Brook
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 Litchfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Mill Brook.
Within Connecticut, the name Mill Brook is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maine
Piscataquis County
This Mill Brook is located in Piscataquis County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mill Brook that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piscataquis County community of Mill Brook.
New Brunswick
This Mill Brook lies 459 miles [738.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mill Brook that is located in Litchfield County.
New York
Bronx 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 New York community of Mill Brook [Bronx County].
Nova Scotia
This Mill Brook lies 548 miles [881.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mill Brook that is located in Litchfield County.
Tennessee
Washington County
This Mill Brook is located in Washington County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Mill Brook that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Mill Brook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mill Brook ...
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.
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 Mill Brook to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mill Brook and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Mill Brook to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 295 miles [474.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,606 miles [9,022 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,315 miles [10,163 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,191 miles [6,744.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mill Brook) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mill Brook 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 Mill Brook 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 Mill Brook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9634, Longitude: -73.1196 In this case, the coordinates for Mill Brook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.267 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.959 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.693 degrees.