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 Mill:
40.302593, -75.781583
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 Mill
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 Berks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Browns Mill.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Browns Mill.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Juniata 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 Pennsylvania community of Browns Mill [Juniata County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Fulton County
This Browns Mill is located in Fulton County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<2> to the southwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Browns Mill.
Illinois
Stephenson County
This Browns Mill is located in Stephenson County and lies 724 miles [1,165.2 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stephenson County community of Browns Mill.
Missouri
Cass County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Cass County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Browns Mill.
Ripley County
Although located in Ripley County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ripley County community of Browns Mill.
Oregon
Josephine County
This Browns Mill is located in Josephine County and lies 2,439 miles [3,925.2 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Josephine County community of Browns Mill.
Linn 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 Oregon community of Browns Mill [Linn County].
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Browns Mill is located in Rutherford County and lies 645 miles [1,038 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Browns Mill.
Vermont
Essex County
This Browns Mill is located in Essex County and lies 368 miles [592.2 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of Browns Mill.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Browns Mill is located in Fairfax County and lies 122 miles [196.3 km]<2> to the southwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Browns Mill.
West Virginia
Harrison 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 West Virginia community of Browns Mill [Harrison County].
Preston County
This Browns Mill is located in Preston County and lies 221 miles [355.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Browns Mill that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Preston County community of Browns Mill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Browns Mill ...
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 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 Mill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Browns Mill and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies just to the West Northwest.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Browns Mill to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 117 miles [188.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,785 miles [9,310.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,494 miles [10,451.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,370 miles [7,032.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 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 Browns Mill 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 from Point A (ie- Browns Mill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Browns Mill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Mill 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 Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3026, Longitude: -75.7816 In this case, the coordinates for Browns Mill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.039 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.693 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.613 degrees.