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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 Hanceville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hanceville 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 Hanceville:
    • 34.063902, -86.763569
    • 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 Hanceville
  • 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 Cullman County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cullman County
    • Since Hanceville is near Blount County and also Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 Hanceville

Communities Also Named Hanceville ...

We found two communities that are also named Hanceville.

There is one other community in Alabama that is also named Hanceville.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Hanceville in the United States and Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Blount 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 Hanceville [Blount County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • This Hanceville lies 2,173 miles [3,497.1 km]<2> to the northwest of the Hanceville that is located in Cullman County.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hanceville ...

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.

  • Berlin
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Berlin is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
  • Bolte
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bolte is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolte
  • Center Community
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Center Community is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Community
  • Damascus
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Damascus is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus
  • Dodge City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Dodge City is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodge City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 621 people
  • Garden City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Garden City is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Good Hope
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Good Hope is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,393 people
  • Gum Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Gum Springs is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Springs
  • High Rock
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • High Rock is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rock
  • Joy
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Joy is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
  • Mountain Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Mountain Grove is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Grove
  • River Bend
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • River Bend is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Bend
  • Sky Ball
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Sky Ball is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sky Ball
  • Steppville
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Steppville is located in Cullman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steppville

How Far From Hanceville 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 city such as Hanceville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hanceville and extending to:

  • Cullman, which is the Seat of Cullman County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Hanceville to Montgomery, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,524 miles [10,499.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,235 miles [11,643.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,111 miles [8,225.4 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Hanceville 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hanceville) 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 Hanceville 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 Hanceville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0639, Longitude: -86.7636       In this case, the coordinates for Hanceville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.685 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.373 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.163 degrees.