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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 Browns Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Browns Mills 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 Browns Mills:
    • 39.972931, -74.583452
    • 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 Mills
  • 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 Burlington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Burlington County
    • Since Browns Mills is near Ocean County and also Monmouth County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ocean County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Monmouth 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 Browns Mills

Communities Also Named Browns Mills ...

We found one communities that are also named Browns Mills.

Within New Jersey, the name Browns Mills is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named Browns Mills in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Van Buren 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 Michigan community of Browns Mills [Van Buren County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Browns Mills ...

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.

  • Buddtown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Buddtown is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buddtown
  • Comical Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Comical Corners is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Corners
  • Cookstown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Cookstown is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cookstown
  • Earlys Crossing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Earlys Crossing is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earlys Crossing
  • Four Mile
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Four Mile is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Mile
  • Four Mile Circle
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Four Mile Circle is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Mile Circle
  • Hockamik
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Hockamik is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockamik
  • Lewistown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Lewistown is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown
  • Magnolia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Magnolia is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
  • Mount Misery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Mount Misery is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Misery
  • Scrapetown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Scrapetown is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrapetown

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

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

  • Mount Holly, which is the Seat of Burlington County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Browns Mills to Mount Holly, 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.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 19 miles [30.6 km] to the north northwest (NNW). The buggy would take 6 hours and walking would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 150 miles [241.4 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,748 miles [9,250.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,452 miles [10,383.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,329 miles [6,966.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 Browns Mills 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Browns Mills) 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 Browns Mills 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 Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9729, Longitude: -74.5835    
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.359 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.871 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.238 degrees.