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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 Briceville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Briceville and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Briceville:
    • 36.178412, -84.185201
    • 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 Briceville
  • 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 Anderson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Anderson County
    • Since Briceville is near Campbell County and also Knox County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Campbell County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Knox 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 Briceville

Communities Also Named Briceville ...

We found one communities that are also named Briceville.

Within Tennessee, the name Briceville is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Briceville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Floyd 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 Georgia community of Briceville [Floyd County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Briceville ...

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.

  • Cove Creek
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Cove Creek is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Creek
  • Disney
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Disney is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disney
  • Dutch Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Dutch Valley is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Valley
  • Granite
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Granite is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
  • Hillvale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Hillvale is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillvale
  • Hinds Creek ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hinds Creek is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds Creek
  • Knapp ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Knapp is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knapp
  • Maples
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Maples is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maples
  • Minersville
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Minersville is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
  • Moore Ferry
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Moore Ferry is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Ferry
  • Oak Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Oak Grove is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Rocky Top
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rocky Top is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Top
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,776 people
    • Former names for Rocky Top:
    • Coal Creek
    • Lake City
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rocky Top <2>
  • Slatestone
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Slatestone is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slatestone

How Far From Briceville 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 Briceville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Briceville and extending to:

  • Clinton, which is the Seat of Anderson County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 144 miles [231.7 km]<3> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Briceville to Nashville, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 433 miles [696.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,318 miles [10,167.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,030 miles [11,313.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,905 miles [7,893.8 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Briceville 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Briceville) 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 Briceville 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 Briceville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1784, Longitude: -84.1852       In this case, the coordinates for Briceville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.207 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.968 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.586 degrees.