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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 Piggtown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Piggtown 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 Piggtown:
- 32.649859, -89.615907
- 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 Piggtown
- 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 Leake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Leake County
- Since Piggtown is near Scott County and also Madison County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Scott County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Madison 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 Piggtown
Curious and Interesting Names Near Piggtown ...
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.
- Carthage
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Cash
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cash is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash
- Forest Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Forest Grove is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Freeny
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Freeny is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeny
- Gill
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Gill is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gill
- Good Hope
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Good Hope is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
- Lena
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Pilgrim Rest
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Pilgrim Rest is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Rest
- Tuckers Crossing
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Tuckers Crossing is located in Leake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckers Crossing
How Far From Piggtown 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 Piggtown to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Piggtown and extending to:
- Carthage, which is the Seat of Leake County, lies just to the Northeast.
- Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 40 miles [64.4 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Piggtown to Jackson, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 825 miles [1,327.7 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 33 days and walking would take 47 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,709 miles [10,797.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,423 miles [11,946.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,299 miles [8,527.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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- Piggtown) 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 Piggtown 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 Piggtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.6499, Longitude: -89.6159 In this case, the coordinates for Piggtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.322 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.075 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.604 degrees. |
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