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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 Cohutta Springs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cohutta Springs 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 Cohutta Springs:
    • 34.887857, -84.727160
    • 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 Cohutta Springs
  • 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 Murray County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Murray County
    • Since Cohutta Springs is near Whitfield County and also Polk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Whitfield County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Polk 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 Cohutta Springs

Communities Also Named Cohutta Springs ...

We found one communities that are also named Cohutta Springs.

There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Cohutta Springs.

Beyond Georgia.

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Whitfield 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 Cohutta Springs [Whitfield County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Cohutta Springs ...

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.

  • Ball Play
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Ball Play is located in Polk County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ball Play
  • Beaverdale
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Beaverdale is located in Whitfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaverdale
  • Cedar Valley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Cedar Valley is located in Whitfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Valley
  • Dawnville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Dawnville is located in Whitfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawnville
  • Earnest ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Earnest is located in Bradley County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earnest
  • Edgar ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Edgar is located in Whitfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgar
  • Fort Mountain ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Fort Mountain is located in Murray County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Mountain
  • Gap Spring
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Gap Spring is located in Bradley County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Spring
  • Gregory
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Gregory is located in Murray County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 7,432 people
  • Ruralvale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Ruralvale is located in Whitfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruralvale
  • Spring Place
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Spring Place is located in Murray County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Place
  • Temple Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Temple Grove is located in Murray County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple Grove
    • Estimated population in 2019: 4,795 people
  • Treadwell
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Treadwell is located in Murray County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Treadwell
  • Union
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Union is located in Bradley County (TN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union

How Far From Cohutta Springs 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 Cohutta Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Cohutta Springs and extending to:

  • Chatsworth, which is the Seat of Murray County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Cohutta Springs to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>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 506 miles [814.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,400 miles [10,299.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,109 miles [11,440.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,985 miles [8,022.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Cohutta Springs 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- Cohutta Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Cohutta Springs 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 Cohutta Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8879, Longitude: -84.7272       In this case, the coordinates for Cohutta Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.498 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.12 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.143 degrees.