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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 Paint Town, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Paint 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 Paint Town:
- 35.469266, -83.292651
- 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 Paint 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 Jackson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jackson County
- Since Paint Town is near Swain County and also Haywood County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Swain County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Haywood 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 Paint Town
Curious and Interesting Names Near Paint 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.
- Big Laurel
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Big Laurel is located in Swain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Laurel
- Birdtown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Birdtown is located in Swain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdtown
- Cherokee
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Fisher Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Fisher Creek is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Creek
- Greens Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Greens Creek is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens Creek
- Indian Hills
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Indian Hills is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Hills
- Jenkins Place
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Jenkins Place is located in Swain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkins Place
- Love Field
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Love Field is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Love Field
How Far From Paint Town 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 Paint Town to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Paint Town and extending to:
- Sylva, which is the Seat of Jackson County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 261 miles [420 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Paint Town to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 417 miles [671.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 24 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,313 miles [10,159.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,020 miles [11,297.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,897 miles [7,881 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- Paint Town) 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 Paint 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 Paint Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4693, Longitude: -83.2927 In this case, the coordinates for Paint Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.659 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.237 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.41 degrees. |
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