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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 Beans Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Beans Creek 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 Beans Creek:
- 35.061973, -86.246847
- 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 Beans Creek
- 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 Franklin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin County
- Since Beans Creek is near Jackson County and also Lincoln County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jackson County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln 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 Beans Creek
Communities Also Named Beans Creek ...
We found one communities that are also named Beans Creek.
Within Tennessee, the name Beans Creek is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Beans Creek in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
- Cherokee 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 Texas community of Beans Creek [Cherokee County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Beans Creek ...
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.
- Branchville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Branchville is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branchville
- Coptown
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Coptown is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coptown
- Falls Mill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Falls Mill is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mill
- Hickory Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Hickory Grove is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
- Huntland
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Maxwell
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Maxwell is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
- Shady Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Shady Grove is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
- Walnut Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Walnut Grove is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
How Far From Beans Creek 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 Beans Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Beans Creek and extending to:
- Winchester, which is the Seat of Franklin County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Beans Creek to Winchester, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 81 miles [130.4 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 most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 572 miles [920.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 33 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,455 miles [10,388.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,168 miles [11,535.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,044 miles [8,117.5 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 Beans Creek 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Beans Creek) 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 Beans Creek 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 Beans Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0620, Longitude: -86.2468 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.422 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.208 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.725 degrees. |
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