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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 Huxford, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Huxford 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 Huxford:
- 31.559386, -81.510107
- 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 Huxford
- 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 McIntosh County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for McIntosh County
- Since Huxford is near Long County and also Liberty County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Long County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Liberty 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 Huxford
Communities Also Named Huxford ...
We found two communities that are also named Huxford.
There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Huxford.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Huxford in the United States.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Coffee 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 Georgia community of Huxford [Coffee County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Escambia County
- This Huxford is located in Escambia County and lies 351 miles [564.9 km]<2> to the west of the Huxford that is located in McIntosh County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Escambia County community of Huxford.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Huxford ...
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.
- Cedar Point
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cedar Point is located in McIntosh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
- Credit Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Credit Hill is located in McIntosh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Credit Hill
- Crescent
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Horse Ford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Horse Ford is located in Long County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Ford
- Jones
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jones is located in McIntosh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones
- Meridian
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Paradise Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Paradise Park is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Park
- Retreat
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Retreat is located in Liberty County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Retreat
- Shellman Bluff
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
How Far From Huxford 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 Huxford to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Huxford and extending to:
- Darien, which is the Seat of McIntosh County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Huxford to Darien, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 225 miles [362.1 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 565 miles [909.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 33 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,413 miles [10,320.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,097 miles [11,421.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,985 miles [8,022.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Huxford 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 '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- Huxford) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Huxford 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 Huxford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.5594, Longitude: -81.5101 In this case, the coordinates for Huxford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.526 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.378 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.754 degrees. |
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