Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Gatesville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Gatesville and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Gatesville
- 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 Gatesville:
- 34.729812, -87.845867
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Gatesville
- 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 Colbert County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Colbert County
- Since Gatesville is near Lauderdale County and also Franklin County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Lauderdale County
- eBird sighting report for Franklin 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Gatesville ...
We found nine communities that share the name Gatesville.
Within Alabama, the name Gatesville is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Brown County
- This Gatesville is located in Brown County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brown County community of Gatesville.
- Monroe 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 Indiana community of Gatesville [Monroe County].
- Iowa
- Buchanan County
- This Gatesville is located in Buchanan County and lies 574 miles [923.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buchanan County community of Gatesville.
- Kansas
- Clay 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 Kansas community of Gatesville [Clay County].
- Kentucky
- Webster County
- This Gatesville is located in Webster County and lies 192 miles [309 km]<1> to the north of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Gatesville.
- Michigan
- Chippewa 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 Michigan community of Gatesville [Chippewa County].
- Mississippi
- Copiah County
- This Gatesville is located in Copiah County and lies 233 miles [375 km]<1> to the southwest of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Copiah County community of Gatesville.
- North Carolina
- Gates County
- This Gatesville is located in Gates County and lies 633 miles [1,018.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gates County community of Gatesville.
- Texas
- Coryell County
- This Gatesville is located in Coryell County and lies 615 miles [989.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Gatesville that is located in Colbert County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coryell County community of Gatesville.
- Indiana
Curious and Interesting Names Near Gatesville ...
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.
- Cherokee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee
- Cherokee is located in Colbert County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 999 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cherokee <3>
- Green Tree ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Green Tree have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Tree
- Green Tree is located in Lauderdale County
- Hawk Pride
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hawk Pride have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawk Pride
- Hawk Pride is located in Colbert County
- Little Zion ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Zion have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Zion
- Little Zion is located in Colbert County
- Mountain Mills ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Mills
- Mountain Mills is located in Colbert County
- Pride Landing
(Less than 2 miles to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pride Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pride Landing
- Pride Landing is located in Colbert County
- Prides Ferry
(Less than 2 miles to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prides Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prides Ferry
- Prides Ferry is located in Colbert County
- Red Rock
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Woodland Landing ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodland Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Landing
- Woodland Landing is located in Lauderdale County
How Far From Gatesville 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 Gatesville 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<5> community of Gatesville once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Gatesville and extending to:
- Tuscumbia, which is the Seat of Colbert County, lies just to the East.
- Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Gatesville to Montgomery, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 662 miles [1,065.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 38 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,536 miles [10,518.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,252 miles [11,671 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,128 miles [8,252.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Colbert County: www.colbertcounty.org/
The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/
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 from Point A (ie- Gatesville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gatesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7298, Longitude: -87.8459 In this case, the coordinates for Gatesville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Gatesville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | 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 Gatesville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Gatesville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.385 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.273 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.466 degrees. |