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 Ferry:
34.555133, -81.712327
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 Ferry
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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Browns Ferry.
There are two communities within South Carolina that are also named Browns Ferry.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Anderson County
This Browns Ferry is located in Anderson County and lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Browns Ferry.
Georgetown County
This Browns Ferry is located in Georgetown County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Georgetown County community of Browns Ferry.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cullman County
This Browns Ferry is located in Cullman County and lies 309 miles [497.3 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cullman County community of Browns Ferry.
Lawrence County
This Browns Ferry is located in Lawrence County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km] to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Browns Ferry.
Arkansas
Garland County
This Browns Ferry is located in Garland County and lies 649 miles [1,044.5 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garland County community of Browns Ferry.
Georgia
Camden 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 Georgia community of Browns Ferry [Camden County].
Hart County
This Browns Ferry is located in Hart County and lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hart County community of Browns Ferry.
Mississippi
Tate County
This Browns Ferry is located in Tate County and lies 483 miles [777.3 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tate County community of Browns Ferry.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Browns Ferry is located in Hamilton County and lies 208 miles [334.7 km]<1> to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Browns Ferry.
Hardin County
This Browns Ferry is located in Hardin County and lies 376 miles [605.1 km] to the west of the Browns Ferry that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardin County community of Browns Ferry.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Browns Ferry ...
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 Ferry to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Browns Ferry and extending to:
Union, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Browns Ferry to Union, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 54 miles [86.9 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 395 miles [635.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,287 miles [10,117.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,986 miles [11,242.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,866 miles [7,831.1 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- Browns Ferry) 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 Browns Ferry 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 Browns Ferry 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 Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5551, Longitude: -81.7123 In this case, the coordinates for Browns Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.719 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.026 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.036 degrees.