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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 Pineview, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pineview 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 Pineview:
    • 33.537605, -86.681654
    • 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 Pineview
  • 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
    • Since Pineview is near Blount County and also Shelby 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 Shelby 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 Pineview

Communities Also Named Pineview ...

We found seventeen communities that are also named Pineview.

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

Beyond Alabama, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Escambia County
      • This Pineview is located in Escambia County and lies 169 miles [272 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Escambia County community of Pineview.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • This Pineview lies 1,911 miles [3,075.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
    • British Columbia
      • 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 British Columbia community of Pineview.
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Pineview is located in Hillsborough County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Pineview.
    • Georgia
      • Cobb County
      • This Pineview is located in Cobb County and lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the east of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Pineview.
      • Dougherty County
      • This Pineview is located in Dougherty County and lies 201 miles [323.5 km] to the southeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Pineview.
      • Douglas County
      • This Pineview is located in Douglas County and lies 115 miles [185.1 km] to the east of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Pineview.
      • Glynn County
      • This Pineview is located in Glynn County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km] to the east southeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glynn County community of Pineview.
      • Liberty County
      • This Pineview is located in Liberty County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km] to the east southeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Liberty County community of Pineview.
      • Wilcox County
      • This Pineview is located in Wilcox County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km] to the east southeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilcox County community of Pineview.
    • Idaho
      • Fremont County
      • This Pineview is located in Fremont County and lies 1,508 miles [2,426.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fremont County community of Pineview.
    • Mississippi
      • Jones 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 Mississippi community of Pineview [Jones County].
      • Wayne County
      • This Pineview is located in Wayne County and lies 181 miles [291.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Pineview.
    • North Carolina
      • Harnett County
      • This Pineview is located in Harnett County and lies 449 miles [722.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harnett County community of Pineview.
    • Ontario
      • This Pineview lies 1,008 miles [1,622.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
    • South Carolina
      • York County
      • This Pineview is located in York County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Pineview.
    • Texas
      • Wood County
      • This Pineview is located in Wood County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km]<1> to the west of the Pineview that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Pineview.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Pineview ...

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.

  • Battleground
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Battleground is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battleground
  • Cherokee Bend
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Cherokee Bend is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Bend
  • Five Points East
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Five Points East is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points East
  • Gate City
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Gate City is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gate City
  • Holiday Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Holiday Gardens is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Gardens
  • Hunters Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Hunters Hill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Hill
  • Irondale
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Liberty Highlands
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Liberty Highlands is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Highlands
  • Marks Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Marks Village is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marks Village
  • Moore Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Moore Corner is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Corner
  • Mountain Forest
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Mountain Forest is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Forest
  • Rock Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Rock Ridge is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Ridge
  • Rose Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Rose Hill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
  • Saddlebrook
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Saddlebrook is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddlebrook

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

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

  • Birmingham, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies just to the West.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Pineview to Montgomery, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 651 miles [1,047.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 37 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,545 miles [10,533.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,254 miles [11,674.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,130 miles [8,255.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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- Pineview) 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 Pineview 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Pineview 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 Pineview. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5376, Longitude: -86.6817       In this case, the coordinates for Pineview have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.605 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.208 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.244 degrees.