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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 Falconhead, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Falconhead 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 Falconhead:
    • 34.888419, -87.579748
    • 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 Falconhead
  • 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 Lauderdale County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lauderdale County
    • Since Falconhead is near Colbert County and also Lawrence County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Colbert County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lawrence 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 Falconhead

Communities Also Named Falconhead ...

We found one communities that are also named Falconhead.

Within Alabama, the name Falconhead is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Oklahoma
      • Love 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 Oklahoma community of Falconhead [Love County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Falconhead ...

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.

  • Atlas ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Atlas is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlas
  • Emerald Shores
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Emerald Shores is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Shores
  • Hideaway Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hideaway Hills is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hideaway Hills
  • Indian Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Indian Springs is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
  • Kingman ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Kingman is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingman
  • Lake Coves
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lake Coves is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Coves
  • Lakeview
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lakeview is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Lakeview Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Lakeview Heights is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Heights
  • Lock Six
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Lock Six is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lock Six
  • Lockland
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lockland is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockland
  • Sky Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Sky Park is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sky Park
  • Twin Brooks
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Twin Brooks is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Brooks
  • Village Pines
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Village Pines is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Pines
  • Woodlawn
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Woodlawn is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn

How Far From Falconhead to ...

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 Falconhead to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Falconhead and extending to:

  • Florence, which is the Seat of Lauderdale County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 188 miles [302.6 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Falconhead to Montgomery, with an average speed<3>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 644 miles [1,036.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 37 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,518 miles [10,489.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,234 miles [11,642 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,109 miles [8,222.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Falconhead 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>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- Falconhead) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Falconhead 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 Falconhead. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8884, Longitude: -87.5797       In this case, the coordinates for Falconhead have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.23 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.116 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.32 degrees.