Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Greene, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Greene and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Greene
- 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 Greene:
- 33.954003, -83.530441
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Greene
- 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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Oconee County
- Since Greene is near Clarke County and also Barrow County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Clarke County
- eBird sighting report for Barrow 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Greene ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Greene.
Within Georgia, the name Greene is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maine
- Michigan
- Mackinac 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 Michigan community of Greene [Mackinac County].
- Saginaw County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Greene [Saginaw County].
- Missouri
- Lewis County
- Although located in Lewis County, we don't know the location within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Greene.
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Dakota
- Cass 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 North Dakota community of Greene [Cass County].
- Renville County
- This Greene is located in Renville County and lies 1,378 miles [2,217.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Greene that is located in Oconee County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Renville County community of Greene.
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- West Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Greene ...
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.
- Allen
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest) - Bogart
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogart
- Bogart is located in Oconee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,203 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bogart <4>
- Camelot
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Deerbrook
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast) - Fieldstone
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fieldstone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldstone
- Fieldstone is located in Oconee County
- Frogtown
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Holly Hills
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holly Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Hills
- Holly Hills is located in Clarke County
- Jennings Mill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jennings Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings Mill
- Jennings Mill is located in Oconee County
- Kingswood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Oak Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest) - Overlook Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Overlook Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overlook Village
- Overlook Village is located in Oconee County
- Pine Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
- Pine Ridge is located in Oconee County
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- Pleasant Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hills
- Pleasant Hills is located in Oconee County
- Quailwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Ramble Hills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramble Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramble Hills
- Ramble Hills is located in Clarke County
- Rebel Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rebel Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rebel Hill
- Rebel Hill is located in Clarke County
- Rushwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast) - Skyline Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Skyline Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline Park
- Skyline Park is located in Clarke County
- Windy Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Windy Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Hill
- Windy Hill is located in Clarke County
- Pleasant Hills
How Far From Greene 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 Greene to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Greene and extending to:
- Watkinsville, which is the Seat of Oconee County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Greene to Watkinsville, with an average speed<5> 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 51 miles [82.1 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 496 miles [798.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,393 miles [10,288.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,094 miles [11,416.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,973 miles [8,003.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Greene. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Oconee County: www.oconeecounty.com/
The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/
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 Greene 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- Greene) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Greene. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9540, Longitude: -83.5304 In this case, the coordinates for Greene have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Greene to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.759 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.137 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.901 degrees. |