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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 Hillandale, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hillandale and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Hillandale:
    • 33.590667, -84.481595
    • 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 Hillandale
  • 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 Fulton County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fulton County
    • Since Hillandale is near Clayton County and also Fayette County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clayton County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fayette 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 Hillandale

Communities Also Named Hillandale ...

We found seven communities that are also named Hillandale.

Within Georgia, the name Hillandale is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Madison County
      • This Hillandale is located in Madison County and lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Hillandale that is located in Fulton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Hillandale.
    • Maryland
      • Montgomery County
      • This Hillandale is located in Montgomery County and lies 561 miles [902.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hillandale that is located in Fulton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Hillandale.
    • New Brunswick
      • We haven't found the location of this community yet.
    • North Carolina
      • Henderson County
      • This Hillandale is located in Henderson County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hillandale that is located in Fulton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Hillandale.
      • Wake County
      • This Hillandale is located in Wake County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km] to the east northeast of the Hillandale that is located in Fulton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Hillandale.
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • This Hillandale is located in Greenville County and lies 148 miles [238.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hillandale that is located in Fulton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Hillandale.
    • Virginia
      • Charlotte County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hillandale [Charlotte County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hillandale ...

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.

  • Beaver Creek
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Beaver Creek is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
  • Bench Mark
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Bench Mark is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bench Mark
  • Brandy Chase
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Brandy Chase is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandy Chase
  • Castlegate
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Castlegate is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castlegate
  • Cheeko Manor
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Cheeko Manor is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheeko Manor
  • Cooks Crossing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cooks Crossing is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooks Crossing
  • Frog Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Frog Hollow is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frog Hollow
  • Hollydale
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Hollydale is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollydale
  • Kings Forest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Kings Forest is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Forest
    • Estimated population in 2019: 17,949 people
  • Lakeview Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Lakeview Heights is located in Clayton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Heights
  • Limetree
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Limetree is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limetree
  • Malibu
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Malibu is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malibu
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Normandy
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Normandy is located in Clayton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Normandy
      • Estimated population in 2019: 962 people
    • Pleasant Hill
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Pleasant Hill is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
    • Ponderosa
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Ponderosa is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
    • Red Oak
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Smoke Ridge
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Smoke Ridge is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Ridge
    • Twin Creeks
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Twin Creeks is located in Clayton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Creeks

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

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

  • Atlanta, which is the Seat of Fulton County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Hillandale to Atlanta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 12 miles [19.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 552 miles [888.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,450 miles [10,380.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,153 miles [11,511.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,031 miles [8,096.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Hillandale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Hillandale 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 Hillandale 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 Hillandale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5907, Longitude: -84.4816       In this case, the coordinates for Hillandale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.302 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.711 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.361 degrees.