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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 Willie, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Willie 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 Willie:
    • 32.014092, -81.667335
    • 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 Willie
  • 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 Liberty County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Liberty County
    • Since Willie is near Bryan County and also Tattnall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bryan County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tattnall 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 Willie

Communities Also Named Willie ...

We found one communities that are also named Willie.

Within Georgia, the name Willie is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • South Carolina
      • Spartanburg 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 South Carolina community of Willie [Spartanburg County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Willie ...

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.

  • Dukes ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Dukes is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukes
  • Easterling ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Easterling is located in Tattnall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easterling
  • Evergreen
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Evergreen is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
  • Groveland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Groveland is located in Bryan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groveland
  • Gum Branch
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Gum Branch is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Branch
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 269 people
  • Hidden Pines
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Hidden Pines is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Pines
  • Kent ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Kent is located in Long County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
  • Martin Woods
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Martin Woods is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Woods
    • Estimated population in 2019: 383 people
  • Moodys Crossing ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Moodys Crossing is located in Tattnall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moodys Crossing
  • Sandy Run
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Sandy Run is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Run
  • Smiley ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Smiley is located in Long County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smiley
  • Smiley Crossroads
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Smiley Crossroads is located in Long County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smiley Crossroads
  • Strain ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Strain is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strain
  • Trinity
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Trinity is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity
    • Estimated population in 2019: 1,893 people

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

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

  • Hinesville, which is the Seat of Liberty County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Willie to Hinesville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 198 miles [318.7 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 541 miles [870.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,400 miles [10,299.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,086 miles [11,403.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,972 miles [8,001.7 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Willie 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 '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- Willie) 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 Willie 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 Willie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.0141, Longitude: -81.6673       In this case, the coordinates for Willie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.63 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.562 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.695 degrees.