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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 Brook Hollow, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Brook Hollow 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 Brook Hollow:
    • 39.223717, -77.133036
    • 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 Brook Hollow
  • 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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
    • Since Brook Hollow is near Howard County and also Frederick County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Howard County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Frederick 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 Brook Hollow

Communities Also Named Brook Hollow ...

We found seven communities that are also named Brook Hollow.

Within Maryland, the name Brook Hollow is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • DeKalb County
      • This Brook Hollow is located in DeKalb County and lies 540 miles [869 km]<1> to the southwest of the Brook Hollow that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of Brook Hollow.
    • Mississippi
      • Hinds County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brook Hollow [Hinds County].
    • North Carolina
      • Alamance County
      • This Brook Hollow is located in Alamance County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Brook Hollow that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Brook Hollow.
      • Forsyth County
      • This Brook Hollow is located in Forsyth County and lies 279 miles [449 km] to the southwest of the Brook Hollow that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Brook Hollow.
    • Ohio
      • Greene County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brook Hollow [Greene County].
    • South Carolina
      • Anderson County
      • This Brook Hollow is located in Anderson County and lies 443 miles [712.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Brook Hollow that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Brook Hollow.
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • This Brook Hollow is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,838 miles [2,958 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Brook Hollow that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Brook Hollow.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Brook Hollow ...

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.

  • Bootjack
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Bootjack is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bootjack
  • Charlene
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Charlene is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlene
  • Claysville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Claysville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claysville
  • Daisy Woods
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Daisy Woods is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy Woods
  • Damascus Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Damascus Hill is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus Hill
  • Edinburgh
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Edinburgh is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburgh
  • Flower Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Flower Hill is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Hill
  • Hickory Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hickory Grove is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
  • Hickory Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Hickory Ridge is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Ridge
  • Holiday Hills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Rocky Road Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Rocky Road Park is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Road Park
  • Rolling Knolls
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Rolling Knolls is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Knolls
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Stewart Town
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Stewart Town is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart Town
    • Sunshine
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Sunshine is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
    • Unity
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Unity is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
    • Wildcat Forest
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Wildcat Forest is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildcat Forest
    • Wilderness Walk
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Wilderness Walk is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilderness Walk

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

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

  • Rockville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Brook Hollow to Rockville, 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.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 38 miles [61.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 23 miles [37 km] to the south southeast (SSE). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just about two full days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,888 miles [9,475.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,594 miles [10,612 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,471 miles [7,195.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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- Brook Hollow) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Brook Hollow 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.
<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 Brook Hollow 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 Brook Hollow. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2237, Longitude: -77.1330       In this case, the coordinates for Brook Hollow have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.925 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.53 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.629 degrees.