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 Sweetwater Estates:
33.790384, -84.781604
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 Sweetwater Estates
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:
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 Sweetwater Estates
Communities Also Named Sweetwater Estates ...
We found two communities that are also named Sweetwater Estates.
Within Georgia, the name Sweetwater Estates is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Lonoke County
This Sweetwater Estates is located in Lonoke County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sweetwater Estates that is located in Paulding County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lonoke County community of Sweetwater Estates.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Sweetwater Estates is located in Hillsborough County and lies 421 miles [677.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sweetwater Estates that is located in Paulding County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Sweetwater Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sweetwater Estates ...
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.
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 Sweetwater Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sweetwater Estates and extending to:
Dallas, which is the Seat of Paulding County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Sweetwater Estates to Dallas, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 22 miles [35.4 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 556 miles [894.8 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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,454 miles [10,386.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,158 miles [11,519.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,035 miles [8,103 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sweetwater Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Sweetwater Estates 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 Sweetwater Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7904, Longitude: -84.7816 In this case, the coordinates for Sweetwater Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.487 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.952 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.432 degrees.