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We found 33 communities that are also named Asbury.
There are six communities within Tennessee that are also named Asbury.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of 27 communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Coffee County
This Asbury is located in Coffee County and lies 208 miles [334.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coffee County community of Asbury.
Haywood County
This Asbury is located in Haywood County and lies 392 miles [630.9 km]<1> to the west of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Haywood County community of Asbury.
Knox County
This Asbury is located in Knox County and lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Asbury.
Lauderdale County
This Asbury is located in Lauderdale County and lies 402 miles [647 km]<1> to the west of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Asbury.
Pickett County
This Asbury is located in Pickett County and lies 149 miles [239.8 km]<1> to the west of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickett County community of Asbury.
Stewart County
This Asbury is located in Stewart County and lies 304 miles [489.2 km]<1> to the west of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stewart County community of Asbury.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Clarke County
This Asbury is located in Clarke County and lies 441 miles [709.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Asbury.
Dale County
This Asbury is located in Dale County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km] to the south southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dale County community of Asbury.
Marshall County
This Asbury is located in Marshall County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km] to the west southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Asbury.
Tuscaloosa County
This Asbury is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km] to the southwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Asbury.
Georgia
Burke County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Asbury [Burke County].
Troup County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Asbury [Troup County].
Iowa
Dubuque County
This Asbury is located in Dubuque County and lies 617 miles [993 km]<1> to the northwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dubuque County community of Asbury.
Kentucky
Bracken County
This Asbury is located in Bracken County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bracken County community of Asbury.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Asbury [Anne Arundel County].
Caroline County
This Asbury is located in Caroline County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caroline County community of Asbury.
Minnesota
Chippewa County
This Asbury is located in Chippewa County and lies 905 miles [1,456.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chippewa County community of Asbury.
Missouri
Jasper County
This Asbury is located in Jasper County and lies 677 miles [1,089.5 km]<1> to the west of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jasper County community of Asbury.
New Jersey
Gloucester County
This Asbury is located in Gloucester County and lies 453 miles [729 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Asbury.
Warren County
This Asbury is located in Warren County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km] to the northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Asbury.
New York
Tompkins County
This Asbury is located in Tompkins County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tompkins County community of Asbury.
Ulster County
This Asbury is located in Ulster County and lies 603 miles [970.4 km] to the northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ulster County community of Asbury.
North Carolina
Chatham County
This Asbury is located in Chatham County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chatham County community of Asbury.
Montgomery County
This Asbury is located in Montgomery County and lies 157 miles [252.7 km] to the east southeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Asbury.
Stokes County
This Asbury is located in Stokes County and lies 110 miles [177 km] to the east of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stokes County community of Asbury.
Wake County
This Asbury is located in Wake County and lies 207 miles [333.1 km] to the east of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Asbury.
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Asbury is located in Hamilton County and lies 217 miles [349.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Asbury.
Perry County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Asbury [Perry County].
Pennsylvania
Columbia County
This Asbury is located in Columbia County and lies 465 miles [748.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Asbury.
Erie County
This Asbury is located in Erie County and lies 414 miles [666.3 km] to the north northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Asbury.
South Carolina
Cherokee County
This Asbury is located in Cherokee County and lies 105 miles [169 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Asbury.
Union County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Asbury [Union County].
West Virginia
Greenbrier County
This Asbury is located in Greenbrier County and lies 144 miles [231.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Asbury that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenbrier County community of Asbury.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Asbury ...
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 Asbury to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Asbury and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Asbury to Nashville, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 342 miles [550.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,237 miles [10,037.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,821 miles [7,758.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Asbury) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Asbury, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Asbury 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.
<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 Asbury 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 Asbury. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3209, Longitude: -82.3943 In this case, the coordinates for Asbury have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.135 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.758 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.805 degrees.