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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 Pearl River, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pearl River 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 Pearl River:
    • 32.783467, -89.227842
    • 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 Pearl River
  • 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 Neshoba County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Neshoba County
    • Since Pearl River is near Leake County and also Winston County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Leake County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Winston 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 Pearl River

Communities Also Named Pearl River ...

We found three communities that are also named Pearl River.

There is one other community in Mississippi that is also named Pearl River.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Mississippi ...
    • Hancock 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 Mississippi community of Pearl River [Hancock County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Louisiana
      • Saint Tammany Parish
      • This Pearl River is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 169 miles [272 km]<2> to the south of the Pearl River that is located in Neshoba County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Pearl River.
    • New York
      • Rockland County
      • This Pearl River is located in Rockland County and lies 1,013 miles [1,630.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Pearl River that is located in Neshoba County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockland County community of Pearl River.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Pearl River ...

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.

  • Alice
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Alice is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
  • Coldwater
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Coldwater is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldwater
  • Deemer
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Deemer is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deemer
  • Ebenezer
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Ebenezer is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
  • Edinburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Edinburg is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
  • Good Hope
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Good Hope is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
  • Hope
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Hope is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
  • Pearl Hill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Pearl Hill is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl Hill
  • Waldo
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Waldo is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldo

How Far From Pearl River 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 Pearl River to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Philadelphia, which is the Seat of Neshoba County, lies just to the East.
  • Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 64 miles [103 km]<2> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could walk a straight line from Pearl River to Jackson, with an average speed<3> 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 about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 801 miles [1,289.1 km] to the northeast (NE). 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 46 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,687 miles [10,761.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,400 miles [11,909.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,276 miles [8,490.9 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 Pearl River 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 'straight-line' (or 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- Pearl River) 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 Pearl River 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 Pearl River. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7835, Longitude: -89.2278       In this case, the coordinates for Pearl River have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.095 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.83 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.422 degrees.