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 Ashley Acres:
33.838994, -84.760770
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 Ashley Acres
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 Paulding County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Ashley Acres.
Within Georgia, the name Ashley Acres is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Frederick County
This Ashley Acres is located in Frederick County and lies 562 miles [904.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ashley Acres that is located in Paulding County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Ashley Acres.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Ashley Acres is located in Charleston County and lies 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Ashley Acres that is located in Paulding County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Ashley Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ashley Acres ...
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, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Ashley Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ashley Acres and extending to:
Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Ashley Acres to Atlanta, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 553 miles [890 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,451 miles [10,381.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,155 miles [11,514.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,032 miles [8,098.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Ashley Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Ashley Acres 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 Ashley Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8390, Longitude: -84.7608 In this case, the coordinates for Ashley Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.477 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.948 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.412 degrees.