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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 Bluff, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bluff and the surrounding area.

  • 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:
    • 34.613432, -88.955896
    • 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 Bluff
  • 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 Tippah County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tippah County
    • Since Bluff is near Union County and also Benton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Benton 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 Bluff

Communities Also Named Bluff ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Bluff.

Within Mississippi, the name Bluff is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Fayette County
      • This Bluff is located in Fayette County and lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Bluff.
    • Alaska
      • This Bluff lies 3,153 miles [5,074.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
    • Georgia
      • Chatham County
      • This Bluff is located in Chatham County and lies 489 miles [787 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chatham County community of Bluff.
    • Kentucky
      • Caldwell County
      • This Bluff is located in Caldwell County and lies 184 miles [296.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Bluff.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Bluff lies 1,505 miles [2,422.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
    • North Carolina
      • Madison County
      • This Bluff is located in Madison County and lies 354 miles [569.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Bluff.
    • Ohio
      • Coshocton 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 Ohio community of Bluff [Coshocton County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Choctaw County
      • This Bluff is located in Choctaw County and lies 387 miles [622.8 km]<1> to the west of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Choctaw County community of Bluff.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Greene County
      • This Bluff is located in Greene County and lies 595 miles [957.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Bluff.
    • Texas
      • Fayette County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Fayette County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Bluff.
    • Utah
      • San Juan County
      • This Bluff is located in San Juan County and lies 1,163 miles [1,871.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bluff that is located in Tippah County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Juan County community of Bluff.
    • West Virginia
      • Summers 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 West Virginia community of Bluff [Summers County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Bluff ...

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.

  • Center
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Center is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
  • Cotton Plant
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Cotton Plant is located in Tippah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Plant
  • Graham
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Graham is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
  • Halltown
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Halltown is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halltown
  • Locust Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Locust Grove is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
  • Mitchell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Mitchell is located in Tippah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
  • Parks
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Parks is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parks
  • Pleasant Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Pleasant Ridge
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Pleasant Ridge is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
  • Pumpkin Center
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Pumpkin Center is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
  • Shady Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Shady Grove is located in Tippah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Union Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Union Hill is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Hill

How Far From Bluff to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories 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 to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Ripley, which is the Seat of Tippah County, lies just to the North.
  • Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Bluff to Jackson, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 721 miles [1,160.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 41 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,587 miles [10,600.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,306 miles [11,757.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,181 miles [8,338 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bluff) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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, 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 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 Bluff 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>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 Bluff 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 Bluff. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6134, Longitude: -88.9559       In this case, the coordinates for Bluff have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.066 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.044 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.959 degrees.