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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 Chalkville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Chalkville and the surrounding area.
- 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 Chalkville:
- 33.654009, -86.648913
- 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 Chalkville
- 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
- Since Chalkville is near Blount County and also Saint Clair County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Blount County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Clair 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 Chalkville
Communities Also Named Chalkville ...
We found one communities that are also named Chalkville.
Within Alabama, the name Chalkville is unique.
Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Chalkville in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- South Carolina
- Chester 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 South Carolina community of Chalkville [Chester County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Chalkville ...
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.
- Arrowhead
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Arrowhead is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead
- Center Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Clay
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cotton Ridge
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cotton Ridge is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Ridge
- Dale ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Dale is located in Blount County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
- Eagle Ridge
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Eagle Ridge is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Ridge
- Echo Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Echo Hills is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Hills
- Larkwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Larkwood is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larkwood
- Queenstown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Queenstown is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenstown
- Rolling Hills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Rolling Hills is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
- Roper
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Saddlewood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Saddlewood is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddlewood
- Sun Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Sun Valley is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Sunnyside
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sunnyside is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
How Far From Chalkville 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 Chalkville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Chalkville and extending to:
- Birmingham, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Chalkville to Birmingham, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 90 miles [144.8 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 645 miles [1,038 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 37 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,538 miles [10,521.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,247 miles [11,662.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,124 miles [8,246.3 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Chalkville 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chalkville) 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 Chalkville 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 Chalkville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6540, Longitude: -86.6489 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.592 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.209 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.206 degrees. |
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