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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 Cottage Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cottage Mills 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 Cottage Mills:
- 32.298760, -84.888539
- 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 Cottage Mills
- 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 Chattahoochee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Chattahoochee County
- Since Cottage Mills is near Russell County and also Muscogee County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Russell County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Muscogee 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 Cottage Mills
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cottage Mills ...
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.
- Booker Washington Heights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Brickyard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Brickyard is located in Russell County (AL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickyard
- Cherokee Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cherokee Park is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Park
- Christopher
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Christopher is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher
- Gobblers Hill
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Gobblers Hill is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gobblers Hill
- Green Hill ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Green Hill is located in Stewart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
- Heard Place
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Heard Place is located in Stewart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heard Place
- Heineburg Village ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Heineburg Village is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heineburg Village
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,893 people
- Holly Hills
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Holly Hills is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Hills
- Holly Woods
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Holly Woods is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Woods
- Holy Trinity
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Holy Trinity is located in Russell County (AL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Trinity
- Jamestown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jamestown is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Manta
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Manta is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manta
- Pleasantview
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Pleasantview is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasantview
- Quail Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Quail Creek is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Creek
- Sand Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Sand Hill is located in Muscogee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Hill
- Shack ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Shack is located in Chattahoochee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shack
- Union
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Union is located in Stewart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
How Far From Cottage Mills 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 Cottage Mills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<1> community of Cottage Mills once stood, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Cottage Mills and extending to:
- Cusseta, which is the Seat of Chattahoochee County, lies just to the East.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 104 miles [167.4 km]<2> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Cottage Mills 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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 4 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 633 miles [1,018.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,528 miles [10,505.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,226 miles [11,629.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,106 miles [8,217.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cottage Mills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cottage Mills) 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 Cottage Mills 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 Cottage Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2988, Longitude: -84.8885 In this case, the coordinates for Cottage Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.473 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.727 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.815 degrees. |
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