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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 Moorefield, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Moorefield 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 Moorefield:
    • 32.825128, -85.444116
    • 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 Moorefield
  • 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 Chambers County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chambers County
    • Since Moorefield is near Lee County and also Tallapoosa County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lee County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tallapoosa 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 Moorefield

Communities Also Named Moorefield ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Moorefield.

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

Beyond Alabama, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Talladega County
      • This Moorefield is located in Talladega County and lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talladega County community of Moorefield.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Independence County
      • This Moorefield is located in Independence County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Independence County community of Moorefield.
    • Indiana
      • Marion 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 Indiana community of Moorefield [Marion County].
      • Switzerland County
      • This Moorefield is located in Switzerland County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the north of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Switzerland County community of Moorefield.
    • Kentucky
      • Nicholas County
      • This Moorefield is located in Nicholas County and lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nicholas County community of Moorefield.
    • Nebraska
      • Frontier County
      • This Moorefield is located in Frontier County and lies 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frontier County community of Moorefield.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Moorefield lies 1,434 miles [2,307.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
    • Ohio
      • Clark 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 Ohio community of Moorefield [Clark County].
      • Harrison County
      • This Moorefield is located in Harrison County and lies 561 miles [902.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Moorefield.
    • Ontario
      • This Moorefield lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
    • South Carolina
      • Berkeley County
      • This Moorefield is located in Berkeley County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km]<1> to the east of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Moorefield.
    • West Virginia
      • Hardy County
      • This Moorefield is located in Hardy County and lies 562 miles [904.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Chambers County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardy County community of Moorefield.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Moorefield ...

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.

  • Buffalo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Buffalo is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Chapel Hill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Chapel Hill is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill
  • Farmville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Farmville is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmville
  • Gold Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Gold Hill is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
  • India Lakes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • India Lakes is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for India Lakes
  • Jamesville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jamesville is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamesville
  • Jones Mill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jones Mill is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Mill
  • Liberty Crossroads
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Liberty Crossroads is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Crossroads
  • Nelson
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Nelson is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
  • New Harmony
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • New Harmony is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Harmony
  • Ridge Grove
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Ridge Grove is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge Grove
  • Rocky Brook
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Rocky Brook is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Brook
  • Stonewall
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Stonewall is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
  • Tuckersburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuckersburg is located in Chambers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckersburg

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

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

  • LaFayette, which is the Seat of Chambers County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could walk a straight line from Moorefield to Montgomery, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 629 miles [1,012.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, 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 6,527 miles [10,504.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,229 miles [11,633.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,107 miles [8,218.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Moorefield) 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 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 Moorefield 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 Moorefield 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 Moorefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8251, Longitude: -85.4441       In this case, the coordinates for Moorefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.827 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.211 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.911 degrees.