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 Cherry Creek:
34.350553, -88.987583
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 Cherry 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 Pontotoc County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found thirteen communities that are also named Cherry Creek.
Within Mississippi, the name Cherry Creek is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Madison County
This Cherry Creek is located in Madison County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Cherry Creek.
British Columbia
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 British Columbia community of Cherry Creek.
Colorado
Denver County
This Cherry Creek is located in Denver County and lies 953 miles [1,533.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Denver County community of Cherry Creek.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Cherry Creek is located in Hillsborough County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Cherry Creek.
Idaho
Oneida County
This Cherry Creek is located in Oneida County and lies 1,363 miles [2,193.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Cherry Creek.
Kansas
Anderson 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 Kansas community of Cherry Creek [Anderson County].
Woodson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cherry Creek [Woodson County].
Nevada
Pershing County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Cherry Creek [Pershing County].
White Pine County
This Cherry Creek is located in White Pine County and lies 1,470 miles [2,365.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White Pine County community of Cherry Creek.
New York
Chautauqua County
This Cherry Creek is located in Chautauqua County and lies 765 miles [1,231.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chautauqua County community of Cherry Creek.
South Dakota
Ziebach County
This Cherry Creek is located in Ziebach County and lies 970 miles [1,561.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ziebach County community of Cherry Creek.
Tennessee
White County
This Cherry Creek is located in White County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Cherry Creek.
West Virginia
Raleigh County
This Cherry Creek is located in Raleigh County and lies 496 miles [798.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cherry Creek that is located in Pontotoc County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Raleigh County community of Cherry Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cherry 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.
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 Cherry Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cherry Creek and extending to:
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 157 miles [252.7 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Cherry Creek to Jackson, with an average speed<4>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 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 732 miles [1,178 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,601 miles [10,623.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,319 miles [11,778.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,194 miles [8,358.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Cherry Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Cherry 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>
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 Cherry Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Cherry 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 Cherry Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3506, Longitude: -88.9876 In this case, the coordinates for Cherry Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.067 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.011 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.025 degrees.