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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 Goose Neck, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Goose Neck 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 Goose Neck:
- 32.248498, -83.452115
- 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 Goose Neck
- 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 Pulaski County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pulaski County
- Since Goose Neck is near Bleckley County and also Houston County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bleckley County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Houston 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 Goose Neck
Communities Also Named Goose Neck ...
We found one communities that are also named Goose Neck.
Within Georgia, the name Goose Neck is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Goose Neck in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- West Virginia
- Ritchie 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 West Virginia community of Goose Neck [Ritchie County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Goose Neck ...
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.
- Dodge High
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Dodge High is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodge High
- Empire
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Empire is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
- Five Points
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Five Points is located in Wilcox County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Mars Hill Crossroads
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Royal
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Royal is located in Bleckley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
- Estimated population in 2019: 2,571 people
- Sugar Hill
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Sugar Hill is located in Dooly County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Hill
- Union
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Union is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Yonkers
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Yonkers is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yonkers
How Far From Goose Neck 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 Goose Neck to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Goose Neck and extending to:
- Hawkinsville, which is the Seat of Pulaski County, lies just to the North Northwest.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 117 miles [188.3 km]<2> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Goose Neck to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 583 miles [938.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 34 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,468 miles [10,409.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,161 miles [11,524.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,043 miles [8,115.9 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 Goose Neck 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Goose Neck) 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 Goose Neck 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 Goose Neck. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2485, Longitude: -83.4521 In this case, the coordinates for Goose Neck have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.644 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.764 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.288 degrees. |
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