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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 Brown's Crossing, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Brown's Crossing 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 Brown's Crossing:
    • 33.050366, -83.360355
    • 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 Brown's Crossing
  • 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 Baldwin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Baldwin County
    • Since Brown's Crossing is near Jones County and also Putnam County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jones County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Putnam 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 Brown's Crossing

Communities Also Named Brown's Crossing ...

We found six communities that are also named Brown's Crossing.

Within Georgia, the name Brown's Crossing is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Mohave County
      • This Brown's Crossing is located in Mohave County and lies 1,730 miles [2,784.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Brown's Crossing that is located in Baldwin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mohave County community of Brown's Crossing.
    • Illinois
      • Sangamon County
      • This Brown's Crossing is located in Sangamon County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Brown's Crossing that is located in Baldwin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sangamon County community of Brown's Crossing.
    • Indiana
      • Morgan County
      • This Brown's Crossing is located in Morgan County and lies 472 miles [759.6 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Brown's Crossing that is located in Baldwin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Brown's Crossing.
    • Michigan
      • Marquette County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brown's Crossing [Marquette County].
    • Missouri
      • Wayne County
      • This Brown's Crossing is located in Wayne County and lies 490 miles [788.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Brown's Crossing that is located in Baldwin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Brown's Crossing.
    • New York
      • Steuben County
      • This Brown's Crossing is located in Steuben County and lies 712 miles [1,145.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Brown's Crossing that is located in Baldwin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Steuben County community of Brown's Crossing.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Brown's Crossing ...

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.

How Far From Brown's Crossing 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 Brown's Crossing to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brown's Crossing and extending to:

  • Milledgeville, which is the Seat of Baldwin County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Brown's Crossing to Atlanta, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 536 miles [862.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,427 miles [10,343.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,124 miles [11,465 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,004 miles [8,053.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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- Brown's Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Brown's Crossing 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.
<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 Brown's Crossing 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 Brown's Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.0504, Longitude: -83.3604       In this case, the coordinates for Brown's Crossing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.627 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.857 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.061 degrees.