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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 Pine Acres, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pine Acres 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 Pine Acres:
    • 34.075931, -86.587491
    • 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 Pine Acres
  • 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 Blount County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Blount County
    • Since Pine Acres is near Cullman County and also Marshall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cullman County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marshall 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 Pine Acres

Communities Also Named Pine Acres ...

We found fourteen communities that are also named Pine Acres.

There are two communities within Alabama that are also named Pine Acres.

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

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Marshall County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Marshall County and lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Pine Acres.
    • Montgomery County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Montgomery County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km]<1> to the south of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Pine Acres.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Amador County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Amador County and lies 1,909 miles [3,072.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Amador County community of Pine Acres.
    • Louisiana
      • Calcasieu Parish
      • This Pine Acres is located in Calcasieu Parish and lies 472 miles [759.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calcasieu Parish community of Pine Acres.
    • Mississippi
      • Clay County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Clay County and lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Pine Acres.
    • New Jersey
      • Gloucester 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 New Jersey community of Pine Acres [Gloucester County].
      • Ocean County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Ocean County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Pine Acres.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Dauphin County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Dauphin County and lies 692 miles [1,113.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Pine Acres.
    • South Carolina
      • Anderson County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Anderson County and lies 223 miles [358.9 km]<1> to the east of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Pine Acres.
      • Darlington County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Darlington County and lies 371 miles [597.1 km] to the east of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Pine Acres.
      • Sumter County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Sumter County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km] to the east of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumter County community of Pine Acres.
    • Virginia
      • Clarke County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Clarke County and lies 587 miles [944.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Pine Acres.
      • Portsmouth City
      • This Pine Acres is located in Portsmouth City and lies 603 miles [970.4 km] to the east northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Portsmouth City community of Pine Acres.
      • Roanoke County
      • This Pine Acres is located in Roanoke County and lies 427 miles [687.2 km] to the east northeast of the Pine Acres that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke County community of Pine Acres.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Pine Acres ...

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.

  • Five Points
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Five Points is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Fowler Spring
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Fowler Spring is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler Spring
  • Gum Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Gum Springs is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Springs
  • Joy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Joy is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
  • Liberty
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Liberty is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
  • Mountain Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Mountain Grove is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Grove
  • Royal
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Royal is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
  • Sky Ball
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sky Ball is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sky Ball

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

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

  • Oneonta, which is the Seat of Blount County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Pine Acres to Oneonta, 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 118 miles [189.9 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 625 miles [1,005.8 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 6,516 miles [10,486.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,226 miles [11,629.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,102 miles [8,210.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pine Acres) 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 Pine Acres 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 Pine Acres 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 Pine Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0759, Longitude: -86.5875       In this case, the coordinates for Pine Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.58 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.253 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.089 degrees.