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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 Remus, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Remus 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 Remus:
    • 33.986212, -84.892998
    • 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 Remus
  • 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 Paulding County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Paulding County
    • Since Remus is near Polk County and also Bartow County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Polk County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bartow 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 Remus

Communities Also Named Remus ...

We found four communities that are also named Remus.

Within Georgia, the name Remus is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Mecosta County
      • This Remus is located in Mecosta County and lies 663 miles [1,067 km]<1> to the north of the Remus that is located in Paulding County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecosta County community of Remus.
    • Mississippi
      • Leake County
      • This Remus is located in Leake County and lies 267 miles [429.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Remus that is located in Paulding County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Leake County community of Remus.
    • Oklahoma
      • Pottawatomie 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 Oklahoma community of Remus [Pottawatomie County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wood County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Remus [Wood County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Remus ...

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.

  • Acorn Tree
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Acorn Tree is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acorn Tree
  • Cross Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Cross Creek is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Creek
  • Crowville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Crowville is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowville
  • Divide
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Divide is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Don ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Don is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Don
  • Forest Echo
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Forest Echo is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Echo
  • Greenacres
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Greenacres is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenacres
  • Hart Circle
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Hart Circle is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart Circle
  • Hickory Gap
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Hickory Gap is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Gap
  • Indian Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Indian Springs is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
  • Iron Stab
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Iron Stab is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Stab
  • Little Creek Farms
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Little Creek Farms is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Creek Farms
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Meadow Lark
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Meadow Lark is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lark
    • Mountain Trace
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Mountain Trace is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Trace
    • Musket Ridge
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Musket Ridge is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musket Ridge
    • Pumpkin
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Pumpkin is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin
    • Rock Springs
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Rock Springs is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
    • Spanish Trails
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Spanish Trails is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Trails
    • Sunset Hills
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunset Hills is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hills
    • Twelve Oaks
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Twelve Oaks is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelve Oaks
    • Wildwood
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Wildwood is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
    • Windmill Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Windmill Creek is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windmill Creek
    • Wood Valley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Wood Valley is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Valley

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

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

  • Dallas, which is the Seat of Paulding County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 32 miles [51.5 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Remus to Atlanta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 552 miles [888.4 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 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,449 miles [10,378.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,154 miles [11,513.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,032 miles [8,098.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Remus) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Remus 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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Remus, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Remus 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 Remus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9862, Longitude: -84.8930       In this case, the coordinates for Remus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.562 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.066 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.429 degrees.