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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 Brookside Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Brookside 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 Brookside Park:
    • 41.265890, -80.836751
    • 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 Brookside 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 Trumbull County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Trumbull County
    • Since Brookside Park is near Franklin County and also Mahoning County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Mahoning 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 Brookside Park

Communities Also Named Brookside Park ...

We found six communities that are also named Brookside Park.

There are two communities within Ohio that are also named Brookside Park.

Beyond Ohio, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Franklin County
      • This Brookside Park is located in Franklin County and lies 136 miles [218.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Brookside Park that is located in Trumbull County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Brookside Park.
    • Pickaway County
      • This Brookside Park is located in Pickaway County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Brookside Park that is located in Trumbull County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickaway County community of Brookside Park.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Mateo 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 California community of Brookside Park [San Mateo County].
    • Delaware
      • New Castle 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 Delaware community of Brookside Park [New Castle County].
    • New York
      • Rockland County
      • This Brookside Park is located in Rockland County and lies 356 miles [572.9 km]<1> to the east of the Brookside Park that is located in Trumbull County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockland County community of Brookside Park.
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • This Brookside Park is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,608 miles [2,587.8 km]<1> to the west of the Brookside Park that is located in Trumbull County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Brookside Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Brookside 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.

  • Center World
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Center World is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center World
  • Champion
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Champion is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Champion
  • DeForest
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • DeForest is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeForest
  • DeForest Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • DeForest Junction is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeForest Junction
  • Delightful
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Delightful is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delightful
  • Hardscrabble
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Hardscrabble is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardscrabble
  • Howland Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Howland Corners is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howland Corners
  • King Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • King Corners is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Corners
  • Lordstown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Lordstown is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lordstown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,244 people
  • Rays Corners
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Rays Corners is located in Trumbull County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rays Corners

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

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

  • Warren, which is the Seat of Trumbull County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 143 miles [230.1 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Brookside Park to Columbus, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 258 miles [415.2 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,951 miles [9,577.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,674 miles [10,740.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,550 miles [7,322.5 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brookside Park) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Brookside 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.
<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 Brookside 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 Brookside Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2659, Longitude: -80.8368       In this case, the coordinates for Brookside Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.068 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.274 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.508 degrees.