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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 Hicks Mill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hicks Mill 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 Hicks Mill:
    • 38.094022, -77.258034
    • 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 Hicks 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 Caroline County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caroline County
    • Since Hicks Mill is near King George County and also Essex County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for King George County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Essex 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 Hicks Mill

Communities Also Named Hicks Mill ...

We found two communities that are also named Hicks Mill.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Hicks Mill.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Hicks Mill in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Brunswick County
      • This Hicks Mill is located in Brunswick County and lies 104 miles [167.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Hicks Mill that is located in Caroline County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Hicks Mill.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Hicks Mill [Prince George's County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hicks 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.

  • Cash Corner
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cash Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash Corner
  • Daniel Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Daniel Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniel Corner
  • Goldmans Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Goldmans Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldmans Corner
  • Hickory Fork
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hickory Fork is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Fork
  • Howards Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Howards Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howards Corner
  • Lent
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Lent is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lent
  • Martins Corner
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Martins Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Corner
  • Penny Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Penny Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penny Corner
  • Poorhouse Corner
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Poorhouse Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poorhouse Corner
  • Range Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Range Corner is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range Corner
  • Raymonds Fork
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Raymonds Fork is located in Caroline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymonds Fork

How Far From Hicks Mill 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 Hicks Mill to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Bowling Green, which is the Seat of Caroline County, lies just to the West Southwest.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Hicks Mill to Richmond, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 56 miles [90.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). 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 shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,941 miles [9,561.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,643 miles [10,690.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,521 miles [7,275.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hicks Mill) 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 Hicks 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.
<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 Hicks 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 Hicks Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0940, Longitude: -77.2580       In this case, the coordinates for Hicks Mill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.066 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.517 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.111 degrees.