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 Cloverhill:
36.156446, -86.658330
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 Cloverhill
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Cloverhill.
Within Tennessee, the name Cloverhill is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Cloverhill in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New Jersey
Hunterdon County
This Cloverhill is located in Hunterdon County and lies 708 miles [1,139.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cloverhill that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hunterdon County community of Cloverhill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cloverhill ...
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.
Dog Town ‑ Historic (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
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 Cloverhill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cloverhill and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 559 miles [899.6 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Cloverhill to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 32 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,420 miles [10,332 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,138 miles [11,487.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,013 miles [8,067.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Cloverhill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Cloverhill 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 Cloverhill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1564, Longitude: -86.6583 In this case, the coordinates for Cloverhill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.72 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.704 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.638 degrees.