Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Belle Forest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Belle Forest and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Belle Forest
- 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 Belle Forest:
- 36.573659, -87.441399
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Belle Forest
- 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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
- Since Belle Forest is near Christian County and also Stewart County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Christian County
- eBird sighting report for Stewart 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Belle Forest ...
We found one communities that share the name Belle Forest.
Within Tennessee, the name Belle Forest is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Belle Forest in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Virginia
- Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Belle Forest [Fairfax County].
- Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Belle Forest ...
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.
- Birchwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north) - Boiling Springs ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boiling Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boiling Springs
- Boiling Springs is located in Montgomery County
- Cedarbrook
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedarbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarbrook
- Cedarbrook is located in Montgomery County
- Clarksville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksville
- Clarksville is located in Montgomery County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 161,247 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clarksville <3>
- Endsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Grasslands
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grasslands have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grasslands
- Grasslands is located in Montgomery County
- Green Acres
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Green Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acres
- Green Acres is located in Montgomery County
- Jordan Springs ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jordan Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Springs
- Jordan Springs is located in Montgomery County
- Kennedy
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Louise Heights
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Louise Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louise Heights
- Louise Heights is located in Montgomery County
- Estimated population in 2014: 5,715 people
- Meadow Lane
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Lane have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lane
- Meadow Lane is located in Montgomery County
- Meadowbrook
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadowbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
- Meadowbrook is located in Montgomery County
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- Oak Grove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oak Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
- Oak Grove is located in Christian County (KY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,369 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oak Grove <3>
- Peachers Mill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peachers Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachers Mill
- Peachers Mill is located in Montgomery County
- Ranch Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ranch Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranch Hill
- Ranch Hill is located in Montgomery County
- Spring Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Spring Valley is located in Montgomery County
- Willow Bend
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Bend
- Willow Bend is located in Montgomery County
- Woodlawn
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodlawn have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn
- Woodlawn is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Woodlawn <3>
- Oak Grove
How Far From Belle Forest 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 Belle Forest to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Belle Forest and extending to:
- Clarksville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies just to the East Southeast.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 46 miles [74 km]<4> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Belle Forest to Nashville, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 590 miles [949.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 34 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,431 miles [10,349.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,153 miles [11,511.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,028 miles [8,091.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Belle Forest. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Montgomery County: www.montgomerycountytn.org/
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
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 Belle Forest 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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Belle Forest) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Belle Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5737, Longitude: -87.4414 In this case, the coordinates for Belle Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Belle Forest to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.223 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.342 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.877 degrees. |