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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:
- 31.747409, -82.685418
- 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 Jeff Davis County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jeff Davis County
- Since Brooker is near Coffee County and also Appling County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Appling 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.
There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Brooker.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Brooker in the United States.
- Communities Located In 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].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Bradford County
- This Brooker is located in Bradford County and lies 130 miles [209.2 km]<2> to the south of the Brooker that is located in Jeff Davis County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradford 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.
- Bassville
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Bassville is located in Appling County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassville
- Cedarpark
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cedarpark is located in Telfair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarpark
- Cherokee Hills
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Cherokee Hills is located in Coffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
- Graham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Graham is located in Appling County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
- Huffer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Huffer is located in Coffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffer
- Lumber City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Lumber City Ferry
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lumber City Ferry is located in Jeff Davis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumber City Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,257 people
- Red Bluff
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Red Bluff is located in Ben Hill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
- Roper
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Roper is located in Jeff Davis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roper
- Snipesville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Snipesville is located in Jeff Davis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snipesville
- Town Bluff Ferry
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Town Bluff Ferry is located in Jeff Davis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town Bluff Ferry
- Towns
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Towns is located in Telfair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Towns
How Far From Brooker to ...
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 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:
- Hazlehurst, which is the Seat of Jeff Davis County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Brooker to Hazlehurst, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 170 miles [273.6 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 587 miles [944.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 34 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,457 miles [10,391.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,146 miles [11,500.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,030 miles [8,095 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line 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: 31.7474, Longitude: -82.6854 In this case, the coordinates for Brooker have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.187 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.167 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.127 degrees. |
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