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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 Barnes Crossroads, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Barnes Crossroads 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 Barnes Crossroads:
    • 32.967073, -84.690206
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Barnes Crossroads
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Barnes Crossroads ...

We found one communities that share the name Barnes Crossroads.

Within Georgia, the name Barnes Crossroads is unique.

Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Barnes Crossroads in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Chowan 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 North Carolina community of Barnes Crossroads [Chowan County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Barnes Crossroads ...

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.

  • Bulloch Crossroads
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bulloch Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulloch Crossroads
    • Bulloch Crossroads is located in Meriwether County
  • Bullochville ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bullochville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullochville
    • Bullochville is located in Meriwether County
  • County Line
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for County Line have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for County Line
    • County Line is located in Meriwether County
  • Greenville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Harris City
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harris City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris City
    • Harris City is located in Meriwether County
  • Hunters Crossroad
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunters Crossroad have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Crossroad
    • Hunters Crossroad is located in Meriwether County
  • Nebula
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nebula have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebula
    • Nebula is located in Meriwether County
  • Warm Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Woodcraft
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodcraft have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodcraft
    • Woodcraft is located in Meriwether County

How Far From Barnes Crossroads 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 community such as Barnes Crossroads to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<5> beginning in Barnes Crossroads and extending to:

  • Greenville, which is the Seat of Meriwether County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<5> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Barnes Crossroads to Atlanta, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 591 miles [951.1 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 23 days and walking would take 34 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,488 miles [10,441.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,188 miles [11,568 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,067 miles [8,154.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Barnes Crossroads. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/

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 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 Barnes Crossroads 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Barnes Crossroads) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Barnes Crossroads. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9671, Longitude: -84.6902       In this case, the coordinates for Barnes Crossroads have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.
<7>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 Barnes Crossroads to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.394 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.73 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.588 degrees.




 

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