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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 Fair Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fair Park 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 Fair Park:
    • 33.425942, -86.182474
    • 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 Fair Park
  • 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 Talladega County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Talladega County
    • Since Fair Park is near Saint Clair County and also Shelby County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Clair County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Shelby 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 Fair Park

Communities Also Named Fair Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Fair Park.

Within Alabama, the name Fair Park is unique.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Fair Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Dallas 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 Texas community of Fair Park [Dallas County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fair Park ...

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.

  • Alpine
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Enchanted Hills
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Enchanted Hills is located in Saint Clair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enchanted Hills
  • Fishtrap
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Fishtrap is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishtrap
  • Jonesview
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jonesview is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesview
  • Jonesville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jonesville is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesville
  • Kings Chapel
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Kings Chapel is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Chapel
  • Plantersville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Plantersville is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantersville
  • Pleasant Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Grove is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
  • Rocky Ridge
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Rocky Ridge is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ridge
  • Thornhill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Thornhill is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornhill
  • Tucktown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Tucktown is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucktown
  • Windsong Island
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Windsong Island is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsong Island
  • Winterboro
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Winterboro is located in Talladega County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterboro

How Far From Fair Park 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 Fair Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Fair Park and extending to:

  • Talladega, which is the Seat of Talladega County, lies just to the East.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<3> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Fair Park to Montgomery, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 634 miles [1,020.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,530 miles [10,509 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,236 miles [11,645.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,113 miles [8,228.6 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 Fair Park 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fair Park) 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 Fair Park 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 Fair Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4259, Longitude: -86.1825       In this case, the coordinates for Fair Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.30 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.839 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.069 degrees.