Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Bluff Springs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bluff Springs and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Bluff Springs
- 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 Bluff Springs:
- 33.033463, -89.734803
- 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 Bluff Springs
- 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 Attala County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Attala County
- Since Bluff Springs is near Leake County and also Holmes County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Leake County
- eBird sighting report for Holmes 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 Bluff Springs ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Bluff Springs.
There are two communities within Mississippi that are also named Bluff Springs.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Kemper County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Kemper County and lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kemper County community of Bluff Springs.
- Panola County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Panola County and lies 90 miles [144.8 km]<1> to the north of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Panola County community of Bluff Springs.
- Kemper County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Clay County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Clay County and lies 226 miles [363.7 km]<1> to the east of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Bluff Springs.
- Coffee County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Coffee County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km] to the east southeast of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coffee County community of Bluff Springs.
- Arkansas
- Howard County
- This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bluff Springs [Howard County].
- Florida
- Escambia County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Escambia County and lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<1> to the southeast of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Escambia County community of Bluff Springs.
- Illinois
- Cass County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Cass County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the north of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Bluff Springs.
- Tennessee
- Warren County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Warren County and lies 296 miles [476.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Bluff Springs.
- Texas
- Hays County
- This community is historic<2> and although located in Hays County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hays County community of Bluff Springs.
- Parker County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bluff Springs [Parker County].
- Travis County
- This Bluff Springs is located in Travis County and lies 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bluff Springs that is located in Attala County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Bluff Springs.
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bluff Springs ...
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.
- Bowlin ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest) - Branchville ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Branchville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branchville
- Branchville is located in Attala County
- Center Point ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Center Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Point
- Center Point is located in Attala County
- Earlyville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Earlyville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earlyville
- Earlyville is located in Attala County
- Hurricane
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Joseph
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south) - Pleasant Ridge ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Attala County
- Possumneck
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Possumneck
- Possumneck is located in Attala County
- Rockport ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Rocky Point
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Rocky Point is located in Attala County
- Unity ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
How Far From Bluff Springs 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 Bluff Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic community of Bluff Springs once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Bluff Springs and extending to:
- Kosciusko, which is the Seat of Attala County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Bluff Springs to Jackson, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 815 miles [1,311.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,695 miles [10,774.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,411 miles [11,926.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,286 miles [8,507 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bluff Springs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bluff Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.0335, Longitude: -89.7348 In this case, the coordinates for Bluff Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 Bluff Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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 Bluff Springs 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. |
| <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 Bluff Springs 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 315.428 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.251 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.585 degrees. |