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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 Phillips Crossroads, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Phillips Crossroads 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 Phillips Crossroads:
    • 31.616944, -85.607224
    • 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 Phillips Crossroads
  • 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 Dale County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dale County
    • Since Phillips Crossroads is near Barbour County and also Pike County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Barbour County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pike 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 Phillips Crossroads

Communities Also Named Phillips Crossroads ...

We found three communities that are also named Phillips Crossroads.

There is one other community in Alabama that is also named Phillips Crossroads.

Beyond Alabama, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Shelby 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 Phillips Crossroads [Shelby County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Edgecombe County
      • This Phillips Crossroads is located in Edgecombe County and lies 544 miles [875.5 km]<2> to the northeast of the Phillips Crossroads that is located in Dale County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Edgecombe County community of Phillips Crossroads.
      • Jones County
      • This Phillips Crossroads is located in Jones County and lies 527 miles [848.1 km] to the east northeast of the Phillips Crossroads that is located in Dale County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jones County community of Phillips Crossroads.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Phillips Crossroads ...

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.

  • Dill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Dill is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dill
  • Echo
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Echo is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
  • Elamville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Green Ridge
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Green Ridge is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Ridge
  • Louisville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Louisville is located in Barbour County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 457 people
  • Marley Mill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Marley Mill is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marley Mill
  • Pleasant Hill
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Roberts Crossroads
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Roberts Crossroads is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts Crossroads
  • Rocky Head
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Rocky Head is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Head
  • Skipperville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Skipperville is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skipperville
  • Snow Hill
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Snow Hill is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow Hill
  • Texasville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Texasville is located in Barbour County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texasville

How Far From Phillips Crossroads to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Phillips Crossroads to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Ozark, which is the Seat of Dale County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Phillips Crossroads to Ozark, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 66 miles [106.2 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 696 miles [1,120.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 40 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,591 miles [10,607.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,288 miles [11,728.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,168 miles [8,317.1 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 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 Phillips Crossroads 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' (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- Phillips Crossroads) 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 Phillips Crossroads 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 Phillips Crossroads. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.6169, Longitude: -85.6072    
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.845 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.064 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.231 degrees.