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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 Leliaton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Leliaton 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 Leliaton:
    • 31.325170, -82.993246
    • 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 Leliaton
  • 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 Atkinson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Atkinson County
    • Since Leliaton is near Berrien County and also Coffee County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Berrien County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee 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 Leliaton

Communities Also Named Leliaton ...

We found one communities that are also named Leliaton.

There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Leliaton.

Beyond Georgia.

  • 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 Leliaton [Coffee County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Leliaton ...

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.

  • Bridgetown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Bridgetown is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgetown
  • Cherokee Hills
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Cherokee Hills is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
  • Eightmile Still
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Eightmile Still is located in Clinch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eightmile Still
  • Glory
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Glory is located in Berrien County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glory
  • Gracys Station ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Gracys Station is located in Atkinson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gracys Station
  • Lax
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Lax is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lax
  • Mexico Crossing
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Mexico Crossing is located in Clinch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Crossing
  • Sandy Bottom
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sandy Bottom is located in Atkinson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Bottom
  • Stokesville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Stokesville is located in Atkinson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokesville
  • Teeterville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Teeterville is located in Lanier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teeterville

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Leliaton and extending to:

  • Pearson, which is the Seat of Atkinson County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 186 miles [299.3 km]<2> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Leliaton to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 621 miles [999.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,490 miles [10,444.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,177 miles [11,550.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,063 miles [8,148.1 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Leliaton 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Leliaton) 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 Leliaton 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 Leliaton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.3252, Longitude: -82.9932       In this case, the coordinates for Leliaton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.339 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.283 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.337 degrees.