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 Brookmead:
36.355661, -82.360973
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 Brookmead
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Brookmead.
There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Brookmead.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Brookmead in the United States.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Sullivan County
This Brookmead is located in Sullivan County and lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Brookmead that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Brookmead.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Brookmead is located in Montgomery County and lies 335 miles [539.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Brookmead that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Brookmead.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brookmead ...
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 & 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 Brookmead to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brookmead and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Brookmead to Nashville, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 339 miles [545.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,234 miles [10,032.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,941 miles [11,170.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,818 miles [7,753.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Brookmead) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Brookmead 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 Brookmead. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3557, Longitude: -82.3610 In this case, the coordinates for Brookmead have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.115 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.741 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.781 degrees.