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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 Hartley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hartley 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 Hartley:
    • 32.579591, -83.914631
    • 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 Hartley
  • 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 Peach County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Peach County
    • Since Hartley is near Crawford County and also Macon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Crawford County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Macon 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 Hartley

Communities Also Named Hartley ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Hartley.

Within Georgia, the name Hartley is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Polk County
      • This Hartley is located in Polk County and lies 603 miles [970.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Hartley.
    • California
      • Solano County
      • This Hartley is located in Solano County and lies 2,160 miles [3,476.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Solano County community of Hartley.
    • Iowa
      • O'Brien County
      • This Hartley is located in O'Brien County and lies 963 miles [1,549.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the O'Brien County community of Hartley.
    • Kentucky
      • Pike County
      • This Hartley is located in Pike County and lies 334 miles [537.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Hartley.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hartley [Baltimore County].
    • Michigan
      • Gogebic County
      • This Hartley is located in Gogebic County and lies 1,003 miles [1,614.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gogebic County community of Hartley.
    • Ontario
      • This Hartley lies 862 miles [1,387.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bedford County
      • This Hartley is located in Bedford County and lies 596 miles [959.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Hartley.
      • York County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hartley [York County].
    • South Dakota
      • Haakon County
      • This Hartley is located in Haakon County and lies 1,260 miles [2,027.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Haakon County community of Hartley.
    • Texas
      • Hartley County
      • This Hartley is located in Hartley County and lies 1,077 miles [1,733.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hartley County community of Hartley.
    • West Virginia
      • Ritchie County
      • This Hartley is located in Ritchie County and lies 479 miles [770.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Hartley that is located in Peach County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ritchie County community of Hartley.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hartley ...

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.

  • Friendship
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Friendship is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Horns
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Horns is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horns
  • Indian Oaks
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Indian Oaks is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Oaks
  • Marshallville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Oak Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Oak Grove is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Ohio
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Ohio is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ohio
  • Peach Valley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Peach Valley is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Valley
  • Powersville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Powersville is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powersville
  • Valley Pines
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Valley Pines is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Pines
  • Willow Lake
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Willow Lake is located in Peach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Lake

How Far From Hartley to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Hartley to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Fort Valley, which is the Seat of Peach County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 85 miles [136.8 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Hartley to Atlanta, with an average speed<5>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 581 miles [935 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 33 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,473 miles [10,417.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,169 miles [11,537.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,050 miles [8,127.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Hartley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Hartley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Hartley 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.
<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 Hartley 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 Hartley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.5796, Longitude: -83.9146       In this case, the coordinates for Hartley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.925 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.135 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.383 degrees.