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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 Leah, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Leah 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 Leah:
- 33.663187, -82.335402
- 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 Leah
- 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 Columbia County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia County
- Since Leah is near Lincoln County and also McDuffie County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
- Open the eBird sighting report for McDuffie 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 Leah
Communities Also Named Leah ...
We found one communities that are also named Leah.
Within Georgia, the name Leah is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Leah in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Wyoming
- Albany 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 Wyoming community of Leah [Albany County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Leah ...
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.
- Clay Hill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Clay Hill is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Hill
- Dents Ferry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Dents Ferry is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dents Ferry
- Double Branches
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Double Branches is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Branches
- Leathersville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Leathersville is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leathersville
- Martins Crossroads
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Martins Crossroads is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Crossroads
- Maxim
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Maxim is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxim
- Price Ferry
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Price Ferry is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price Ferry
- Raysville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Raysville is located in McDuffie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raysville
- Woodlawn
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Woodlawn is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn
How Far From Leah 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 Leah to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Leah and extending to:
- Appling, which is the Seat of Columbia County, lies just to the South.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 118 miles [189.9 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Leah to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 466 miles [750 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,355 miles [10,227.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,051 miles [11,347.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,932 miles [7,937.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 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 Leah 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Leah) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Leah 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 Leah. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6632, Longitude: -82.3354 In this case, the coordinates for Leah have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.059 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.29 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.516 degrees. |
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