Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Briggs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Briggs and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Briggs
- 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 Briggs:
- 36.015662, -82.590140
- 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 Briggs
- 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 Unicoi County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Unicoi County
- Since Briggs is near Madison County and also Yancey County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Madison County
- eBird sighting report for Yancey 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 Briggs ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Briggs.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Briggs.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Cochise County
- This Briggs is located in Cochise County and lies 1,594 miles [2,565.3 km]<2> to the west of the Briggs that is located in Unicoi County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cochise County community of Briggs.
- Yavapai County
- This Briggs is located in Yavapai County and lies 1,688 miles [2,716.6 km] to the west of the Briggs that is located in Unicoi County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yavapai County community of Briggs.
- California
- Los Angeles 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 California community of Briggs [Los Angeles County].
- Ventura County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Briggs [Ventura County].
- Florida
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New York
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga 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 Ohio community of Briggs [Cuyahoga County].
- Washington County
- This Briggs is located in Washington County and lies 243 miles [391.1 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Briggs that is located in Unicoi County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Briggs.
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Burnet County
- This Briggs is located in Burnet County and lies 950 miles [1,528.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Briggs that is located in Unicoi County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burnet County community of Briggs.
- Dallas 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 Briggs [Dallas County].
- Utah
- Virginia
- Arizona
Curious and Interesting Names Near Briggs ...
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.
- Bethany
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Big Laurel
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Laurel have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Laurel
- Big Laurel is located in Madison County (NC)
- Chapel Hill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chapel Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC)
- Clear Branch
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch
- Clear Branch is located in Unicoi County
- Former name for Clear Branch:
- Kittyton
- Coffee Ridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coffee Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Ridge
- Coffee Ridge is located in Unicoi County
- Cutshalltown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown
- Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC)
- English
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Flag Pond
(Less than 2 miles to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond
- Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County
- Fordville ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast) - Greystone
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Harris Mill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harris Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris Mill
- Harris Mill is located in Unicoi County
- Ivy Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Continue List (8 more) ...
- Liberty
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Little Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Creek
- Little Creek is located in Madison County (NC)
- Painter Spring
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Painter Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Painter Spring
- Painter Spring is located in Washington County
- Pleasant Hill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
- Pleasant Hill is located in Greene County
- Rice Mill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest) - Rocky Fork
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Fork
- Rocky Fork is located in Unicoi County
- Shallowford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shallowford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shallowford
- Shallowford is located in Unicoi County
- Temple Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Temple Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple Hill
- Temple Hill is located in Unicoi County
- Liberty
How Far From Briggs 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 Briggs to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<4> community of Briggs once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Briggs and extending to:
- Erwin, which is the Seat of Unicoi County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Briggs to Erwin, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 233 miles [375 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 363 miles [584.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,259 miles [10,072.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,966 miles [11,210.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,842 miles [7,792.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
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 Briggs 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> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Briggs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Briggs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0157, Longitude: -82.5901 In this case, the coordinates for Briggs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Briggs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 Briggs 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 311.249 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.845 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.973 degrees. |