Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Yellow Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Yellow Creek and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Yellow Creek
- 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 Yellow Creek:
- 36.590061, -83.777413
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Yellow 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 Bell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Bell County
- Since Yellow Creek is near Claiborne County and also Knox County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Claiborne County
- eBird sighting report for Knox 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Yellow Creek ...
We found ten communities that share the name Yellow Creek.
Within Kentucky, the name Yellow Creek is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lamar County
- This community is historic<1> and although located in Lamar County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamar County community of Yellow Creek.
- Georgia
- Dawson 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 Georgia community of Yellow Creek [Dawson County].
- Illinois
- Stephenson County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Stephenson County and lies 510 miles [820.8 km]<3> to the northwest of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stephenson County community of Yellow Creek.
- Mississippi
- Tishomingo 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 Yellow Creek [Tishomingo County].
- North Carolina
- Graham County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Graham County and lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<3> to the south of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Graham County community of Yellow Creek.
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Jefferson County and lies 322 miles [518.2 km]<3> to the north northeast of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Yellow Creek.
- Pennsylvania
- Bedford County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Bedford County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<3> to the northeast of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Yellow Creek.
- Saskatchewan
- This Yellow Creek lies 1,523 miles [2,451 km]<3> to the northwest of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- Tennessee
- Dickson County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Dickson County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<3> to the west of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dickson County community of Yellow Creek.
- Houston County
- This Yellow Creek is located in Houston County and lies 211 miles [339.6 km] to the west of the Yellow Creek that is located in Bell County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Yellow Creek.
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Yellow 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.
- Arthur
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast) - Combs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Ferndale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast) - Fork Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fork Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fork Ridge
- Fork Ridge is located in Claiborne County (TN)
- Marion
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest) - Pleasant ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Premier
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast) - Reliance
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest) - River View
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for River View have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River View
- River View is located in Claiborne County (TN)
- Stony Fork Junction
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stony Fork Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Fork Junction
- Stony Fork Junction is located in Bell County
- Town Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Town Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town Creek
- Town Creek is located in Claiborne County (TN)
- Valley Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valley Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Creek
- Valley Creek is located in Claiborne County (TN)
How Far From Yellow Creek 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 Yellow Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Yellow Creek and extending to:
- Pineville, which is the Seat of Bell County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Yellow Creek to Pineville, with an average speed<5> 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.
- Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 126 miles [202.8 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 400 miles [643.7 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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,282 miles [10,109.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,994 miles [11,255.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,870 miles [7,837.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Yellow Creek. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Yellow Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 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 Yellow 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. |
| <3> | 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- Yellow Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Yellow Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5901, Longitude: -83.7774 In this case, the coordinates for Yellow Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Yellow Creek to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.967 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.752 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.303 degrees. |