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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 Moores Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Moores Creek 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 Moores Creek:
    • 37.283144, -83.994929
    • 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 Moores Creek
  • 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 Jackson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jackson County
    • Since Moores Creek is near Laurel County and also Clay County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Laurel County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clay 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 Moores Creek

Communities Also Named Moores Creek ...

We found one communities that are also named Moores Creek.

Within Kentucky, the name Moores Creek is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Moores Creek in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Pender 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 North Carolina community of Moores Creek [Pender County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Moores Creek ...

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.

  • Blooming Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Blooming Grove is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blooming Grove
  • Bond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Bond is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bond
  • Buffalo
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Buffalo is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Cornelius
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cornelius is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornelius
  • Egypt
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Egypt is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt
  • Green Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Green Hill is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
  • Greenmount
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenmount is located in Laurel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount
  • High Knob
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • High Knob is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Knob
  • Lewis
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Lewis is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
  • Peoples
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Peoples is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoples
  • Seven Pines
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Seven Pines is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Pines
  • Stringtown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Stringtown is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
  • Victory
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Victory is located in Laurel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory

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

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

  • McKee, which is the Seat of Jackson County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Moores Creek to McKee, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 79 miles [127.1 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 most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 394 miles [634.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,259 miles [10,072.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,974 miles [11,223.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,850 miles [7,805.3 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Moores Creek 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Moores Creek) 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 Moores Creek 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 Moores Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2831, Longitude: -83.9949       In this case, the coordinates for Moores Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.107 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.011 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.201 degrees.