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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 Crandall, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Crandall 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 Crandall:
    • 30.721069, -81.622044
    • 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 Crandall
  • 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 Nassau County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Nassau County
    • Since Crandall is near Camden County and also Duval County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Camden County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Duval 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 Crandall

Communities Also Named Crandall ...

We found nine communities that are also named Crandall.

Within Florida, the name Crandall is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Murray County
      • This Crandall is located in Murray County and lies 338 miles [544 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Murray County community of Crandall.
    • Illinois
      • Tazewell County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crandall [Tazewell County].
    • Indiana
      • Harrison County
      • This Crandall is located in Harrison County and lies 580 miles [933.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Crandall.
    • Kansas
      • Coffey County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Crandall [Coffey County].
    • Manitoba
      • This Crandall lies 1,666 miles [2,681.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
    • Mississippi
      • Clarke County
      • This Crandall is located in Clarke County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Crandall.
    • Ohio
      • Lorain County
      • This Crandall is located in Lorain County and lies 742 miles [1,194.1 km]<1> to the north of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lorain County community of Crandall.
    • South Dakota
      • Day County
      • This Crandall is located in Day County and lies 1,330 miles [2,140.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Day County community of Crandall.
    • Texas
      • Kaufman County
      • This Crandall is located in Kaufman County and lies 880 miles [1,416.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crandall that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kaufman County community of Crandall.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Crandall ...

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.

  • Admirals Walk
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Admirals Walk is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Admirals Walk
  • Catfish Acres
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Catfish Acres is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catfish Acres
  • Chester
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Chester is located in Nassau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
  • Deer Run
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Deer Run is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Run
  • Forest Ridge
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest Ridge is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Ridge
  • Greentree
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Greentree is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greentree
  • Gross
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Gross is located in Nassau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gross
  • Gross Still ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Gross Still is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gross Still
  • Harbor Pines
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Harbor Pines is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Pines
  • Kingsland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Mariners Landing
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Mariners Landing is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariners Landing
  • May Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • May Creek is located in Camden County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May Creek
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Mission Trace
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Mission Trace is located in Camden County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Trace
    • Quail Hollow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Quail Hollow is located in Camden County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Hollow
    • Riverview
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Riverview is located in Camden County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
    • Scotchville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Scotchville is located in Camden County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotchville
      • Estimated population in 2019: 337 people
    • Shadowland
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Shadowland is located in Camden County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadowland

How Far From Crandall to ...

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

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

  • Fernandina Beach, which is the Seat of Nassau County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Crandall to Fernandina Beach, with an average speed<5> 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.
  • Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 159 miles [255.9 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 621 miles [999.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,456 miles [10,389.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,136 miles [11,484.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,026 miles [8,088.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

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- Crandall) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Crandall, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Crandall 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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Crandall 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 Crandall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.7211, Longitude: -81.6220       In this case, the coordinates for Crandall have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.552 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.29 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.999 degrees.