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 Farmersville:
32.078200, -86.891927
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 Farmersville
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 Lowndes County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found sixteen communities that are also named Farmersville.
Within Alabama, the name Farmersville is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Tulare County
This Farmersville is located in Tulare County and lies 1,859 miles [2,991.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tulare County community of Farmersville.
Georgia
Chattooga County
This Farmersville is located in Chattooga County and lies 191 miles [307.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chattooga County community of Farmersville.
Illinois
Montgomery County
This Farmersville is located in Montgomery County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Farmersville.
Indiana
Posey County
This Farmersville is located in Posey County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km]<1> to the north of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Posey County community of Farmersville.
Kansas
Osage 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 Farmersville [Osage County].
Kentucky
Caldwell County
This Farmersville is located in Caldwell County and lies 358 miles [576.1 km]<1> to the north of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Farmersville.
Massachusetts
Barnstable County
This Farmersville is located in Barnstable County and lies 1,121 miles [1,804.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barnstable County community of Farmersville.
Missouri
Livingston County
This Farmersville is located in Livingston County and lies 658 miles [1,058.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Farmersville.
New Jersey
Hunterdon County
This Farmersville is located in Hunterdon County and lies 897 miles [1,443.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hunterdon County community of Farmersville.
Monmouth County
Although located in Monmouth County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monmouth County community of Farmersville.
New York
Cattaraugus County
This Farmersville is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 850 miles [1,367.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Farmersville.
Ohio
Montgomery County
This Farmersville is located in Montgomery County and lies 542 miles [872.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Farmersville.
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
This Farmersville is located in Lancaster County and lies 815 miles [1,311.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Farmersville.
Northampton County
This Farmersville is located in Northampton County and lies 874 miles [1,406.6 km] to the northeast of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Farmersville.
Texas
Collin County
This Farmersville is located in Collin County and lies 555 miles [893.2 km]<1> to the west of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collin County community of Farmersville.
Wisconsin
Dodge County
This Farmersville is located in Dodge County and lies 797 miles [1,282.6 km]<1> to the north of the Farmersville that is located in Lowndes County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dodge County community of Farmersville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Farmersville ...
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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Farmersville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Farmersville and extending to:
Hayneville, which is the Seat of Lowndes County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Farmersville to Hayneville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 40 miles [64.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 726 miles [1,168.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,624 miles [10,660.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,327 miles [11,791.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,205 miles [8,376.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Farmersville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Farmersville 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 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 Farmersville 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 Farmersville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.0782, Longitude: -86.8919 In this case, the coordinates for Farmersville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.631 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.037 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.628 degrees.