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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 Regent Forest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Regent Forest 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 Regent Forest:
    • 34.622591, -86.562491
    • 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 Regent Forest
  • 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 Madison County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Madison County
    • Since Regent Forest is near Morgan County and also Marshall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan 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 Regent Forest

Communities Also Named Regent Forest ...

We found one communities that are also named Regent Forest.

There is one other community in Alabama that is also named Regent Forest.

Beyond Alabama.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Jefferson 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 Regent Forest [Jefferson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Regent Forest ...

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.

  • Bravo
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Bravo is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bravo
  • Camelot
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Camelot is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
  • Chimney Springs
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Chimney Springs is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimney Springs
  • English Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • English Village is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Village
  • Forest Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Forest Park is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
  • Fox Run
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Fox Run is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Run
  • Green Cove Meadows
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Green Cove Meadows is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Cove Meadows
  • Meadow Trace
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Meadow Trace is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Trace
  • Redstone Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Redstone Park is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redstone Park
  • Sugar Tree
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Sugar Tree is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Tree
  • Sunset Cove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Sunset Cove is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Cove
  • Willow Bend
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Willow Bend is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Bend
  • Willowbrook
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Willowbrook is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowbrook

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Regent Forest and extending to:

  • Huntsville, which is the Seat of Madison County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 155 miles [249.4 km]<2> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Regent Forest to Montgomery, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 603 miles [970.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,489 miles [10,443 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,201 miles [11,588.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,077 miles [8,170.6 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 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 Regent Forest 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Regent Forest) 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 Regent Forest 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 Regent Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6226, Longitude: -86.5625       In this case, the coordinates for Regent Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.593 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.345 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.956 degrees.