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 Rocky Springs:
32.088947, -90.814878
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 Rocky 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 Claiborne County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Rocky Springs.
Within Mississippi, the name Rocky Springs is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jackson County
This Rocky Springs is located in Jackson County and lies 352 miles [566.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Rocky Springs.
Georgia
Cherokee County
This Rocky Springs is located in Cherokee County and lies 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Rocky Springs.
Maryland
Frederick County
This Rocky Springs is located in Frederick County and lies 903 miles [1,453.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Rocky Springs.
Montana
Chouteau 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 Montana community of Rocky Springs [Chouteau County].
North Carolina
Alexander County
This Rocky Springs is located in Alexander County and lies 616 miles [991.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alexander County community of Rocky Springs.
Rockingham 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 North Carolina community of Rocky Springs [Rockingham County].
Tennessee
Sullivan County
This Rocky Springs is located in Sullivan County and lies 567 miles [912.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Rocky Springs.
Texas
Angelina County
This Rocky Springs is located in Angelina County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rocky Springs that is located in Claiborne County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Angelina County community of Rocky Springs.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rocky 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.
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 Rocky Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rocky Springs and extending to:
Port Gibson, which is the Seat of Claiborne County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Rocky Springs to Port Gibson, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 39 miles [62.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 904 miles [1,454.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 36 days and walking would take 52 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,786 miles [10,921 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,501 miles [12,071.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,377 miles [8,653.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rocky Springs) 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 Rocky 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.
<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 Rocky Springs 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 Rocky Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.0889, Longitude: -90.8149
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.009 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.798 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.188 degrees.