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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 Lily Pond, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lily Pond 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 Lily Pond:
- 34.433978, -84.951888
- 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 Lily Pond
- 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 Gordon County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Gordon County
- Since Lily Pond is near Bartow County and also Floyd County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bartow County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Floyd 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 Lily Pond
Communities Also Named Lily Pond ...
We found one communities that are also named Lily Pond.
Within Georgia, the name Lily Pond is unique.
Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Lily Pond in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Hampshire
- Belknap 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 New Hampshire community of Lily Pond [Belknap County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lily Pond ...
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.
- Big Spring ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Big Spring is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Spring
- Bowls ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Bowls is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowls
- Cash
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Cash is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash
- Crane Eater
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Crane Eater is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane Eater
- Curryville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Curryville is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curryville
- Damascus
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Damascus is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus
- Farmville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Farmville is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmville
- Fricks Ferry
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Fricks Ferry is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fricks Ferry
- Hunts Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Hunts Corner is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunts Corner
- Lands Ferry
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Lands Ferry is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lands Ferry
- Lays Ferry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Lays Ferry is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lays Ferry
- Plainville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Printup Ferry
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Printup Ferry is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Printup Ferry
- Rocky Creek ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Rocky Creek is located in Gordon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Creek
- Rosedale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Rosedale is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
- Snow Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Snow Springs is located in Bartow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow Springs
How Far From Lily Pond to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Lily Pond to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Lily Pond and extending to:
- Calhoun, which is the Seat of Gordon County, lies just to the North.
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<3> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Lily Pond to Atlanta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 535 miles [861 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 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,431 miles [10,349.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,138 miles [11,487.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,015 miles [8,070.9 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 Lily Pond 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lily Pond) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Lily Pond 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 Lily Pond. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.4340, Longitude: -84.9519 In this case, the coordinates for Lily Pond have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.615 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.191 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.345 degrees. |
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