Dooley Field

Dooley Field is a pitch in Clarke County, Georgia. Dooley Field is situated nearby to Sanford Stadium, as well as near Jim L. Gillis Bridge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sanford Stadium and Tree That Owns Itself.

Sanford Stadium

Stadium

Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world.

Tree That Owns Itself

Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.

The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 3,300 feet northwest of Dooley Field.

Memorial Hall

University building

War Memorial Hall is a landmark building on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The impetus for the building began in 1903 as a joint project between the local YMCA and the University to construct a recreational facility; however, the YMCA eventually decided to build their own building elsewhere in Athens. Memorial Hall is situated 550 feet north of Dooley Field.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.

Five Points

Neighborhood

Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.

Normaltown

Neighborhood

Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2 miles northwest of Dooley Field.

Dooley Field

Type: Pitch
Categories: recreation area, football, and sports location
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.9498° or 33° 56′ 59″ north

Longitude

-83.37336° or 83° 22′ 24″ west

Operator

University of Georgia

Named after

Vince Dooley

Open location code

865RWJXG+WM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 187020126

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=pitch

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=american_football

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