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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 Sartinville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sartinville 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 Sartinville:
- 31.327277, -90.115991
- 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 Sartinville
- 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 Walthall County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Walthall County
- Since Sartinville is near Marion County and also Lawrence County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Marion County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lawrence 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 Sartinville
Communities Also Named Sartinville ...
We found one communities that are also named Sartinville.
There is one other community in Mississippi that is also named Sartinville.
Beyond Mississippi.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Pike 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 Sartinville [Pike County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sartinville ...
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.
- Arm
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bridges
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bridges is located in Walthall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridges
- China Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- China Grove is located in Walthall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Grove
- Expose
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Holly Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Holly Springs is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Springs
- Lightville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Lightville is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lightville
- Pricedale
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Pricedale is located in Pike County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pricedale
- Rushing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Rushing is located in Walthall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushing
- Society Hill
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Society Hill is located in Jefferson Davis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Society Hill
How Far From Sartinville to ...
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 Sartinville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Sartinville and extending to:
- Tylertown, which is the Seat of Walthall County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Sartinville to Tylertown, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day 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 67 miles [107.8 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 903 miles [1,453.2 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 6,795 miles [10,935.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,505 miles [12,078.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,381 miles [8,659.9 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 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 Sartinville 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sartinville) 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 Sartinville 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 Sartinville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.3273, Longitude: -90.1160 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.501 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.105 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.027 degrees. |
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