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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 Young Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Young Park 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 Young Park:
    • 33.768441, -84.739658
    • 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 Young Park
  • 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 Douglas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Douglas County
    • Since Young Park is near Paulding County and also Cobb County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Paulding County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cobb 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 Young Park

Communities Also Named Young Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Young Park.

Within Georgia, the name Young Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Norfolk City
      • 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 Virginia community of Young Park [Norfolk City].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Young Park ...

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.

  • Captains Quarters
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Captains Quarters is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Captains Quarters
  • County Line Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • County Line Heights is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for County Line Heights
  • County Line Place
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • County Line Place is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for County Line Place
  • Dorris
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Dorris is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorris
  • English Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • English Heights is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Heights
  • Evergreen
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Evergreen is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
  • Heritage Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Heritage Valley is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Valley
  • Hickory Forest
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Hickory Forest is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Forest
  • Hickory Glen
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Hickory Glen is located in Paulding County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Glen
  • High Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • High Point is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
  • Kellogg
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Kellogg is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellogg
  • Lincoln Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Lincoln Heights is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Heights
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Merlin Meadows
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Merlin Meadows is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merlin Meadows
    • Park Forest
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Park Forest is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Forest
    • Pleasant Hills
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Pleasant Hills is located in Paulding County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hills
    • Rocky Hills
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Rocky Hills is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Hills
    • Rolling Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rolling Hills is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
    • Springwood Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Springwood Village is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springwood Village
    • Stoneybrook
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Stoneybrook is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneybrook
    • Sunset Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunset Hill is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hill
    • Timber Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Timber Valley is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Valley

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

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

  • Douglasville, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Young Park to Atlanta, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 555 miles [893.2 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 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,453 miles [10,385.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,157 miles [11,518.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,034 miles [8,101.4 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 Young Park 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' (or 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- Young Park) 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 Young Park 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 Young Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7684, Longitude: -84.7397       In this case, the coordinates for Young Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.461 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.92 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.42 degrees.