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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 Wells Town, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wells Town 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 Wells Town:
- 31.022960, -89.474788
- 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 Wells Town
- 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 Lamar County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lamar County
- Since Wells Town is near Pearl River County and also Forrest County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pearl River County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Forrest 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 Wells Town
Communities Also Named Wells Town ...
We found one communities that are also named Wells Town.
There is one other community in Mississippi that is also named Wells Town.
Beyond Mississippi.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Lawrence 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 Wells Town [Lawrence County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wells Town ...
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.
- Fanning
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Fanning is located in Lamar County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanning
- Fords Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Fords Creek is located in Pearl River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Creek
- Hickory Grove
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hickory Grove is located in Pearl River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
- Pine Ridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Pine Ridge is located in Lamar County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
- Poplarville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Red Top
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Red Top is located in Pearl River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Top
- Rock Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Hill is located in Forrest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Hill
- Young
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Young is located in Pearl River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young
How Far From Wells Town 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 Wells Town to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Wells Town and extending to:
- Purvis, which is the Seat of Lamar County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Wells Town to Purvis, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 97 miles [156.1 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 887 miles [1,427.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,783 miles [10,916.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,490 miles [12,054 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,367 miles [8,637.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Wells Town 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 from Point A (ie- Wells Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Wells Town 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 Wells Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.0230, Longitude: -89.4748 In this case, the coordinates for Wells Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.08 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.575 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.823 degrees. |
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