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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 Oglethorpe, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe:
- 32.297318, -84.062331
- 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 Oglethorpe
- 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 Macon County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Macon County
- Since Oglethorpe is near Sumter County and also Dooly County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sumter County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Dooly 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 Oglethorpe
Communities Also Named Oglethorpe ...
We found one communities that are also named Oglethorpe.
There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Oglethorpe.
Beyond Georgia.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Chatham 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 Oglethorpe [Chatham County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oglethorpe ...
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.
- Clearview
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Clearview is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview
- Cutoff
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Cutoff is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutoff
- Fields
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Fields is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields
- Five Points
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Five Points is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Fountainville
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Fountainville is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountainville
- Four Points
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Four Points is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Points
- Ideal
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Montezuma
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Travelers Rest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Travelers Rest is located in Macon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travelers Rest
How Far From Oglethorpe 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 city such as Oglethorpe to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Oglethorpe and extending to:
- Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 102 miles [164.2 km]<3> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Oglethorpe to Atlanta, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 602 miles [968.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,492 miles [10,447.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,188 miles [11,568 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,069 miles [8,157.8 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 Oglethorpe 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oglethorpe) 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 Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2973, Longitude: -84.0623 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.996 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.177 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.504 degrees. |
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