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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 Fort, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Browns Fort 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 Fort:
    • 41.212366, -111.979039
    • 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 Fort
  • 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 Weber County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Weber County
    • Since Browns Fort is near Davis County and also Morgan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davis County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan 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 Fort

Communities Also Named Browns Fort ...

We found two communities that are also named Browns Fort.

Within Utah, the name Browns Fort is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • 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 Kansas community of Browns Fort [Linn County].
    • Texas
      • Houston County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Houston County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Browns Fort.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Browns Fort ...

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.

  • Apple Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Apple Park is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Park
  • Bonnie Lane
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Bonnie Lane is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Lane
  • Call
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Call is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Call
  • Chamberlains
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Chamberlains is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlains
  • Cross
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cross is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross
  • Crouch
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Crouch is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
  • Diamond Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Diamond Hills is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Hills
  • Downs
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Downs is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downs
  • Dundee Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Dundee Place is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee Place
  • England Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • England Hills is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for England Hills
  • Golden View
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Golden View is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden View
  • Greenwood Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Greenwood Village is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Village
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Harris
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Harris is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
    • Hidden Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hidden Village is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Village
    • Highland View
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Highland View is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland View
    • Hunters
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Hunters is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters
    • Lark Circle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lark Circle is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark Circle
    • Lovelock
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Lovelock is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelock
    • Maple Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Maple Hills is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Hills
    • Melody Lane
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Melody Lane is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melody Lane
    • Mitchell
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Mitchell is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
    • Pearwood Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Pearwood Park is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearwood Park
    • Purdy
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Purdy is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purdy
    • Riders
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Riders is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riders
    • River Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • River Valley is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Valley
    • Shady Brook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Shady Brook is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Brook
    • Terrace
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Terrace is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrace
    • Townside Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Townside Park is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Townside Park
    • University Heights
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • University Heights is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Heights
    • University Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • University Park is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Park
    • University Place
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • University Place is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Place

How Far From Browns Fort to ...

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 Fort to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic community of Browns Fort once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Browns Fort and extending to:

  • Ogden, which is the Seat of Weber County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 31 miles [49.9 km]<3> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Browns Fort to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,841 miles [2,962.8 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,973 miles [11,222 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,741 miles [12,457.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,724 miles [9,211.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 Fort 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>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 Fort, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Browns Fort) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Fort 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 Fort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2124, Longitude: -111.9790    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.035 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.655 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.785 degrees.