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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 Mount Herman, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mount Herman 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 Mount Herman:
    • 31.953546, -81.145388
    • 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 Mount Herman
  • 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 Chatham County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chatham County
    • Since Mount Herman is near Bryan County and also Jasper County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bryan County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jasper 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 Mount Herman

Communities Also Named Mount Herman ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Mount Herman.

Within Georgia, the name Mount Herman is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Attala County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Attala County and lies 505 miles [812.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Attala County community of Mount Herman.
    • North Carolina
      • Caldwell County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Caldwell County and lies 271 miles [436.1 km]<1> to the north of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Mount Herman.
      • Surry County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Surry County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km] to the north of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Surry County community of Mount Herman.
    • Oklahoma
      • McCurtain County
      • This Mount Herman is located in McCurtain County and lies 806 miles [1,297.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCurtain County community of Mount Herman.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Washington County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Washington County and lies 561 miles [902.8 km]<1> to the north of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Mount Herman.
    • Tennessee
      • Moore County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Moore County and lies 386 miles [621.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moore County community of Mount Herman.
      • Putnam County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Putnam County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km] to the northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Mount Herman.
      • Wayne County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Wayne County and lies 446 miles [717.8 km] to the northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Mount Herman.
      • Weakley County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Weakley County and lies 524 miles [843.3 km] to the northwest of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weakley County community of Mount Herman.
    • Texas
      • Shelby County
      • This Mount Herman is located in Shelby County and lies 771 miles [1,240.8 km]<1> to the west of the Mount Herman that is located in Chatham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Mount Herman.
    • Virginia
      • Rockingham 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 Virginia community of Mount Herman [Rockingham County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mount Herman ...

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 Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Cedar Grove is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Cedar Hammock
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cedar Hammock is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hammock
  • Coffee Bluff
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Coffee Bluff is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Bluff
  • Cresthill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cresthill is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cresthill
  • Grove Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Grove Park is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Park
  • Grove Point
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Grove Point is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Point
  • Grubbs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Grubbs is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grubbs
  • Halcyon Bluff
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Halcyon Bluff is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halcyon Bluff
  • Kings Wood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kings Wood is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Wood
  • Mount Pleasant
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Mount Pleasant is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
  • Pin Point
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Pin Point is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pin Point
  • Rivers End
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Rivers End is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rivers End
  • Rose Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rose Hill is located in Chatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill

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

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

  • Savannah, which is the Seat of Chatham County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 225 miles [362.1 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Mount Herman to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 532 miles [856.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,379 miles [10,266 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,064 miles [11,368.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,951 miles [7,967.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mount Herman) 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 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 Mount Herman 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 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 Mount Herman 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 Mount Herman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.9535, Longitude: -81.1454       In this case, the coordinates for Mount Herman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.339 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.218 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.525 degrees.