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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 Brooker, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Brooker and the surrounding area.
- 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 Brooker:
- 29.889033, -82.333094
- 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 Brooker
- 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 Bradford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bradford County
- Since Brooker is near Union County and also Alachua County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Alachua 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 Brooker
Communities Also Named Brooker ...
We found two communities that are also named Brooker.
Within Florida, the name Brooker is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Coffee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brooker [Coffee County].
- Jeff Davis County
- This Brooker is located in Jeff Davis County and lies 130 miles [209.2 km]<2> to the north of the Brooker that is located in Bradford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jeff Davis County community of Brooker.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brooker ...
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.
- Bland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Bland is located in Alachua County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bland
- Brown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Brown is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
- Dana
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Dana is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- Danville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Danville is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danville
- Dukes
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dukes is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukes
- Graham
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Hasan
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Hasan is located in Alachua County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hasan
- La Crosse
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Butler
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Louise
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Louise is located in Alachua County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louise
How Far From Brooker to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a town such as Brooker to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brooker and extending to:
- Starke, which is the Seat of Bradford County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Brooker to Starke, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 122 miles [196.3 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 691 miles [1,112.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 40 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,526 miles [10,502.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,204 miles [11,593.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,096 miles [8,201.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Brooker 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. |
| <2> | 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- Brooker) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Brooker 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 Brooker. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.8890, Longitude: -82.3331 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.895 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.57 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.434 degrees. |
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