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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 Fish Pond, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fish Pond 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 Fish Pond:
- 34.642591, -87.140570
- 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 Fish Pond
- 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 Lawrence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lawrence County
- Since Fish Pond is near Morgan County and also Limestone County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Limestone 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 Fish Pond
Communities Also Named Fish Pond ...
We found one communities that are also named Fish Pond.
There is one other community in Alabama that is also named Fish Pond.
Beyond Alabama.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Tallapoosa 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 Alabama community of Fish Pond [Tallapoosa County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fish Pond ...
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.
- Brides Hill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Brides Hill is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brides Hill
- Flower Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Flower Hill is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Hill
- Jerusalem
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jerusalem is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerusalem
- Lakeview
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Lakeview is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Lawngate
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lawngate is located in Limestone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawngate
- Paradise Shores
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Paradise Shores is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Shores
- Poplar Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Poplar Creek is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Creek
- Poplar Point
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Poplar Point is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Point
- Riverview ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Riverview is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
- Trinity
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Fish Pond to ...
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 Fish Pond to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Fish Pond and extending to:
- Moulton, which is the Seat of Lawrence County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fish Pond to Moulton, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 163 miles [262.3 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 630 miles [1,013.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). 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 6,512 miles [10,480 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,226 miles [11,629.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,101 miles [8,209.3 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 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 Fish Pond 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 from Point A (ie- Fish Pond) 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 Fish Pond 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 Fish Pond. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6426, Longitude: -87.1406 In this case, the coordinates for Fish Pond have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.947 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.755 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.191 degrees. |
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