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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 Stottsville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stottsville 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 Stottsville:
    • 34.530099, -83.487392
    • 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 Stottsville
  • 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 Habersham County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Habersham County
    • Since Stottsville is near Banks County and also Stephens County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Banks County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Stephens 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 Stottsville

Communities Also Named Stottsville ...

We found two communities that are also named Stottsville.

Within Georgia, the name Stottsville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Craighead 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 Arkansas community of Stottsville [Craighead County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • This Stottsville is located in Chester County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km]<2> to the northeast of the Stottsville that is located in Habersham County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of Stottsville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Stottsville ...

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.

  • College Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • College Park is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Park
  • Dicks Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Dicks Hill is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dicks Hill
  • Fowlertown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Fowlertown is located in Stephens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowlertown
  • Harvest
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Harvest is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvest
  • Heads Ferry
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Heads Ferry is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heads Ferry
  • Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Hills is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills
  • Longview
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Longview is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
  • Nancytown ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Nancytown is located in Banks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nancytown
  • New Switzerland
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • New Switzerland is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Switzerland
  • Prospect
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Prospect is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prospect
  • Shorts Mill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Shorts Mill is located in Habersham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shorts Mill

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

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

  • Clarkesville, which is the Seat of Habersham County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 74 miles [119.1 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Stottsville 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 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 467 miles [751.6 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 6,365 miles [10,243.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,068 miles [11,374.8 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 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 Stottsville 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- Stottsville) 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 Stottsville 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 Stottsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5301, Longitude: -83.4874       In this case, the coordinates for Stottsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.752 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.21 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.737 degrees.