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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 Grubbs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grubbs 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 Grubbs:
    • 32.010660, -81.181031
    • 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 Grubbs
  • 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 Grubbs ...

We found three communities that share the name Grubbs.

Within Georgia, the name Grubbs is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Barbour 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 Alabama community of Grubbs [Barbour County].
    • Arkansas
      • Jackson County
      • This Grubbs is located in Jackson County and lies 620 miles [997.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Grubbs that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Grubbs.
    • Illinois
      • Jackson County
      • This Grubbs is located in Jackson County and lies 617 miles [993 km]<2> to the northwest of the Grubbs that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Grubbs.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Grubbs ...

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.

  • Carver Village
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carver Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Village
    • Carver Village is located in Chatham County
  • Cedar Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Cedar Grove is located in Chatham County
  • Central Junction
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Junction
    • Central Junction is located in Chatham County
  • Cloverdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cloverdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
    • Cloverdale is located in Chatham County
  • Coffee Bluff
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Bluff
    • Coffee Bluff is located in Chatham County
  • Cresthill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cresthill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cresthill
    • Cresthill is located in Chatham County
  • Florida Junction
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florida Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Junction
    • Florida Junction is located in Chatham County
  • Georgetown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Grove Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grove Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Park
    • Grove Park is located in Chatham County
  • Grove Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grove Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Point
    • Grove Point is located in Chatham County
  • Groveland
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Groveland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groveland
    • Groveland is located in Chatham County
  • Halcyon Bluff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halcyon Bluff have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halcyon Bluff
    • Halcyon Bluff is located in Chatham County
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Kings Wood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kings Wood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Wood
      • Kings Wood is located in Chatham County
    • Liberty City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Liberty City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty City
      • Liberty City is located in Chatham County
    • Magnolia Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magnolia Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Park
      • Magnolia Park is located in Chatham County
    • Mount Pleasant
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Pleasant have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
      • Mount Pleasant is located in Chatham County
    • Rivers End
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rivers End have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rivers End
      • Rivers End is located in Chatham County
    • Rose Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rose Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
      • Rose Hill is located in Chatham County
    • Sackville ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sackville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sackville
      • Sackville is located in Chatham County
    • Silk Hope
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silk Hope have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silk Hope
      • Silk Hope is located in Chatham County
    • Union Junction
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Union Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Junction
      • Union Junction is located in Chatham County
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,899 people
    • Woodlawn Terrace
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodlawn Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn Terrace
      • Woodlawn Terrace is located in Chatham County

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Grubbs and extending to:

  • Savannah, which is the Seat of Chatham County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 221 miles [355.7 km]<2> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Grubbs to Atlanta, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 529 miles [851.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 30 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,378 miles [10,264.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,063 miles [11,366.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,950 miles [7,966.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Grubbs. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Chatham County: www.chathamcounty.org/

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Grubbs 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Grubbs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Grubbs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.0107, Longitude: -81.1810       In this case, the coordinates for Grubbs 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 Grubbs 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 310.36 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.251 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.523 degrees.









 

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