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 Fruitvale:
35.746887, -89.030533
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 Fruitvale
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 Crockett County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Fruitvale.
Within Tennessee, the name Fruitvale is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Fruitvale lies 1,705 miles [2,743.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
California
Alameda County
This Fruitvale is located in Alameda County and lies 1,831 miles [2,946.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alameda County community of Fruitvale.
Fresno County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Fruitvale [Fresno County].
Kern County
This Fruitvale is located in Kern County and lies 1,681 miles [2,705.3 km] to the west of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kern County community of Fruitvale.
Colorado
Mesa County
This Fruitvale is located in Mesa County and lies 1,089 miles [1,752.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mesa County community of Fruitvale.
Idaho
Adams County
This Fruitvale is located in Adams County and lies 1,564 miles [2,517 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Fruitvale.
New Mexico
Bernalillo County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Fruitvale [Bernalillo County].
Oregon
Lincoln County
This Fruitvale is located in Lincoln County and lies 1,926 miles [3,099.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Fruitvale.
Texas
Van Zandt County
This Fruitvale is located in Van Zandt County and lies 440 miles [708.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Zandt County community of Fruitvale.
Washington
Yakima County
This Fruitvale is located in Yakima County and lies 1,786 miles [2,874.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Fruitvale that is located in Crockett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yakima County community of Fruitvale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fruitvale ...
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.
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 Fruitvale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fruitvale and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Fruitvale 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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 692 miles [1,113.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 40 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,534 miles [10,515.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,257 miles [11,679 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,133 miles [8,260.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Fruitvale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Fruitvale 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.
<3>
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 Fruitvale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Fruitvale 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 Fruitvale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7469, Longitude: -89.0305
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.182 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.334 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.756 degrees.