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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 Treetop, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Treetop 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 Treetop:
    • 33.894548, -84.448541
    • 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 Treetop
  • 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 Cobb County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cobb County
    • Since Treetop is near Fulton County and also DeKalb County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fulton County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for DeKalb 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 Treetop

Communities Also Named Treetop ...

We found one communities that are also named Treetop.

Within Georgia, the name Treetop is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Ashe 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 North Carolina community of Treetop [Ashe County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Treetop ...

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.

  • Chimney Trace
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Chimney Trace is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimney Trace
  • Farmstead
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Farmstead is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmstead
  • Greyfield
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Greyfield is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greyfield
  • Heard Ferry
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Heard Ferry is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heard Ferry
  • Heritage
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Heritage is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage
  • Post Harbor
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Post Harbor is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Harbor
  • Post River
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Post River is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post River
  • Postwoods
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Postwoods is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Postwoods
  • Power Ferry
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Power Ferry is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power Ferry
  • Riverwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Riverwood is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverwood
  • Rose Garden Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Rose Garden Hills is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Garden Hills
  • Shadowwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Shadowwood is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadowwood
  • Stonewall
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Stonewall is located in Cobb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall

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

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

  • Marietta, which is the Seat of Cobb County, lies just to the Northwest.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Treetop to Atlanta, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 537 miles [864.2 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 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,435 miles [10,356.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,138 miles [11,487.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,016 miles [8,072.5 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 Treetop 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Treetop) 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 Treetop 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 Treetop. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8945, Longitude: -84.4485       In this case, the coordinates for Treetop have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.295 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.746 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.275 degrees.