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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 Mission Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mission Hills 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 Mission Hills:
    • 34.168986, -84.841884
    • 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 Mission Hills
  • 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 Bartow County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bartow County
    • Since Mission Hills is near Paulding County and also Cobb County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Paulding County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cobb 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 Mission Hills

Communities Also Named Mission Hills ...

We found eight communities that are also named Mission Hills.

Within Georgia, the name Mission Hills is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Shelby County
      • This Mission Hills is located in Shelby County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Mission Hills.
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • This Mission Hills is located in Los Angeles County and lies 1,911 miles [3,075.5 km]<1> to the west of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Mission Hills.
      • San Diego County
      • This Mission Hills is located in San Diego County and lies 1,858 miles [2,990.2 km] to the west of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of Mission Hills.
      • Santa Barbara County
      • This Mission Hills is located in Santa Barbara County and lies 2,016 miles [3,244.4 km] to the west northwest of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Barbara County community of Mission Hills.
    • Illinois
      • Cook 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 Illinois community of Mission Hills [Cook County].
    • Kansas
      • Johnson County
      • This Mission Hills is located in Johnson County and lies 636 miles [1,023.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Mission Hills.
    • Texas
      • El Paso County
      • This Mission Hills is located in El Paso County and lies 1,262 miles [2,031 km]<1> to the west of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Mission Hills.
    • Virginia
      • Montgomery County
      • This Mission Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 324 miles [521.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mission Hills that is located in Bartow County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Mission Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mission Hills ...

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.

  • Cartersville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Hidden Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hidden Hills is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Hills
  • Indian Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Indian Valley is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Valley
  • Jones Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jones Heights is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Heights
  • Ladds
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Ladds is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ladds
  • Rodgers
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Rodgers is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodgers
  • Shallwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Shallwood is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shallwood
  • Shellman ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Shellman is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shellman
    • Estimated population in 2019: 933 people
  • Wildwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Wildwood is located in Bartow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood

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

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

  • Cartersville, which is the Seat of Bartow County, lies just to the East.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 38 miles [61.2 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Mission Hills to Atlanta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 542 miles [872.3 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 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,439 miles [10,362.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,144 miles [11,497.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,021 miles [8,080.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Mission Hills) 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 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 Mission Hills 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 Mission Hills 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 Mission Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1690, Longitude: -84.8419       In this case, the coordinates for Mission Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.539 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.066 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.365 degrees.