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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 Ravenwood Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Ravenwood Park 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 Ravenwood Park:
    • 33.733461, -82.717641
    • 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 Ravenwood Park
  • 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 Wilkes County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wilkes County
    • Since Ravenwood Park is near Lincoln County and also Taliaferro County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Taliaferro 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 Ravenwood Park

Communities Also Named Ravenwood Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Ravenwood Park.

Within Georgia, the name Ravenwood Park is unique.

Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Ravenwood Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Ravenwood Park [Fairfax County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Ravenwood Park ...

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.

  • Brickhouse
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Brickhouse is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickhouse
  • Celeste
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Celeste is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Celeste
  • Ficklin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Ficklin is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ficklin
  • Floral Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Floral Hill is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floral Hill
  • Lincoln Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lincoln Heights is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Heights
  • Little River
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Little River is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little River
  • Lovelace
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lovelace is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelace
  • Oak Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Oak Grove is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Porters
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Porters is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porters
  • Sandtown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Sandtown is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandtown
  • Sandy Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Sandy Hill is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Hill

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

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

  • Washington, which is the Seat of Wilkes County, lies just to the West.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Ravenwood Park to Atlanta, with an average speed<3>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 476 miles [766 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,368 miles [10,248.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,066 miles [11,371.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,946 miles [7,959.8 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 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 Ravenwood Park 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ravenwood Park) 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 Ravenwood Park 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 Ravenwood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7335, Longitude: -82.7176       In this case, the coordinates for Ravenwood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.281 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.555 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.644 degrees.