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 Bryn Mawr:
47.503433, -122.232900
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 Bryn Mawr
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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Bryn Mawr.
Within Washington, the name Bryn Mawr is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
San Bernardino County
This Bryn Mawr is located in San Bernardino County and lies 964 miles [1,551.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Bryn Mawr that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Bryn Mawr.
Georgia
Peach County
This Bryn Mawr is located in Peach County and lies 2,247 miles [3,616.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Bryn Mawr that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Peach County community of Bryn Mawr.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Bryn Mawr [Cook County].
DuPage County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bryn Mawr [DuPage County].
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This Bryn Mawr is located in Allegheny County and lies 2,127 miles [3,423.1 km]<1> to the east of the Bryn Mawr that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Bryn Mawr.
Montgomery County
This Bryn Mawr is located in Montgomery County and lies 2,358 miles [3,794.8 km] to the east of the Bryn Mawr that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Bryn Mawr.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Bryn Mawr is located in Fairfax County and lies 2,308 miles [3,714.4 km]<1> to the east of the Bryn Mawr that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Bryn Mawr.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bryn Mawr ...
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 Bryn Mawr to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bryn Mawr and extending to:
Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 44 miles [70.8 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Bryn Mawr to Olympia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,316 miles [3,727.2 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,778 miles [10,908.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,540 miles [12,134.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,663 miles [9,113.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bryn Mawr) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Bryn Mawr 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 Bryn Mawr 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 Bryn Mawr. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5034, Longitude: -122.2329 In this case, the coordinates for Bryn Mawr have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.786 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.323 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.701 degrees.