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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 Schlatterville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Schlatterville 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 Schlatterville:
    • 31.172167, -82.199844
    • 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 Schlatterville
  • 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 Brantley County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Brantley County
    • Since Schlatterville is near Ware County and also Pierce County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ware County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pierce 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 Schlatterville

Communities Also Named Schlatterville ...

We found one communities that are also named Schlatterville.

There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Schlatterville.

Beyond Georgia.

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Pierce 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 Schlatterville [Pierce County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Schlatterville ...

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.

  • Cypress Siding
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Cypress Siding is located in Charlton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Siding
  • Homestead
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Homestead is located in Pierce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
  • Jamestown
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jamestown is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
  • Otter Creek
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Otter Creek is located in Pierce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otter Creek
  • Prosperity
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Prosperity is located in Brantley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
  • Racepond
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Racepond is located in Charlton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racepond
  • Skullhead
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Skullhead is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skullhead
  • Sunnyside
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Sunnyside is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
  • Trudie
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Trudie is located in Brantley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trudie
  • Walkersville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Walkersville is located in Pierce County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkersville
  • Waltertown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Waltertown is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waltertown
    • Estimated population in 2019: 4,115 people
    • Waltertown has also been known as:
    • Watertown

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

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

  • Nahunta, which is the Seat of Brantley County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Schlatterville to Nahunta, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 219 miles [352.4 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 607 miles [976.9 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,462 miles [10,399.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,146 miles [11,500.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,033 miles [8,099.8 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 Schlatterville 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 '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- Schlatterville) 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 Schlatterville 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 Schlatterville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.1722, Longitude: -82.1998       In this case, the coordinates for Schlatterville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.89 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.744 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.091 degrees.