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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 Browns Corner:
42.978973, -71.610905
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 Browns Corner
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 Hillsborough County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seventeen communities that are also named Browns Corner.
Within New Hampshire, the name Browns Corner is unique.
Beyond New Hampshire, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Madison County
This Browns Corner is located in Madison County and lies 980 miles [1,577.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Browns Corner.
California
Yolo County
This Browns Corner is located in Yolo County and lies 2,600 miles [4,184.3 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yolo County community of Browns Corner.
Colorado
Larimer County
This Browns Corner is located in Larimer County and lies 1,722 miles [2,771.3 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Larimer County community of Browns Corner.
Connecticut
Litchfield County
This Browns Corner is located in Litchfield County and lies 105 miles [169 km]<1> to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Litchfield County community of Browns Corner.
Delaware
Kent County
This Browns Corner is located in Kent County and lies 336 miles [540.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Browns Corner.
Indiana
Huntington County
This Browns Corner is located in Huntington County and lies 723 miles [1,163.6 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntington County community of Browns Corner.
Maine
Kennebec County
This Browns Corner is located in Kennebec County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kennebec County community of Browns Corner.
Somerset County
This Browns Corner is located in Somerset County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km] to the northeast of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Browns Corner.
Waldo 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 Maine community of Browns Corner [Waldo County].
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Browns Corner is located in Montgomery County and lies 392 miles [630.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Browns Corner.
Queen Anne's County
This Browns Corner is located in Queen Anne's County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km] to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queen Anne's County community of Browns Corner.
Massachusetts
Middlesex County
This Browns Corner is located in Middlesex County and lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the south of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Browns Corner.
New Brunswick
This Browns Corner lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
Virginia
Loudoun County
This Browns Corner is located in Loudoun County and lies 421 miles [677.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudoun County community of Browns Corner.
New Kent County
This Browns Corner is located in New Kent County and lies 474 miles [762.8 km] to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Kent County community of Browns Corner.
Northumberland County
This Browns Corner is located in Northumberland County and lies 436 miles [701.7 km] to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northumberland County community of Browns Corner.
West Virginia
Jefferson County
This Browns Corner is located in Jefferson County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the southwest of the Browns Corner that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Browns Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Browns Corner ...
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 & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Browns Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Browns Corner and extending to:
Nashua, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Browns Corner to Nashua, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Concord, which is the State Capital of New Hampshire, lies 16 miles [25.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 399 miles [642.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,503 miles [8,856.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,089 miles [6,580.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Browns Corner) 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 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 Browns Corner 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Browns Corner 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 Browns Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9790, Longitude: -71.6109 In this case, the coordinates for Browns Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.215 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.944 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.504 degrees.