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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 Free Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Free Hill 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 Free Hill:
- 36.563324, -85.488493
- 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 Free Hill
- 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 Clay County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Clay County
- Since Free Hill is near Cumberland County and also Monroe County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Monroe 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 Free Hill
Communities Also Named Free Hill ...
We found one communities that are also named Free Hill.
There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Free Hill.
Beyond Tennessee.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Washington 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 Tennessee community of Free Hill [Washington County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Free Hill ...
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.
- Baptist Ridge
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Baptist Ridge is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baptist Ridge
- Butlers Landing ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cave Springs
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Fox Springs ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Fox Springs is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Springs
- Hix ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hix is located in Overton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hix
- Martinsburg
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Martinsburg is located in Monroe County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsburg
- Pea Ridge
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pea Ridge is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pea Ridge
- Richville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Richville is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richville
- Timothy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Timothy is located in Overton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timothy
- Turkey Creek ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Turkey Creek is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Creek
- Turkeytown ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Turkeytown is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkeytown
How Far From Free Hill 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 Free Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Free Hill and extending to:
- Celina, which is the Seat of Clay County, lies just to the Southwest.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<2> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Free Hill to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 488 miles [785.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 28 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,353 miles [10,224.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,070 miles [11,378.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,945 miles [7,958.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 Free Hill 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' (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- Free Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Free Hill 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 Free Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5633, Longitude: -85.4885 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.011 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.946 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.036 degrees. |
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