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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 Harmony Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Harmony Hills 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 Harmony Hills:
    • 36.580657, -82.503761
    • 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 Harmony Hills
  • 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 Sullivan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
    • Since Harmony Hills is near Hawkins County and also Washington County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hawkins County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Washington 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 Harmony Hills

Communities Also Named Harmony Hills ...

We found five communities that are also named Harmony Hills.

Within Tennessee, the name Harmony Hills is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This Harmony Hills is located in New Castle County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Harmony Hills that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Harmony Hills.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Harmony Hills is located in Baltimore County and lies 380 miles [611.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Harmony Hills that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Harmony Hills.
      • Montgomery County
      • This Harmony Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km] to the east northeast of the Harmony Hills that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Harmony Hills.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lackawanna County
      • This Harmony Hills is located in Lackawanna County and lies 497 miles [799.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Harmony Hills that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lackawanna County community of Harmony Hills.
    • Texas
      • Bexar 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 Texas community of Harmony Hills [Bexar County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Harmony Hills ...

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.

  • Cherokee Village
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cherokee Village is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Village
  • Eden Ridge ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Eden Ridge is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Ridge
  • Fox Fire
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Fox Fire is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Fire
  • Fox Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Fox Run is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Run
  • Green Acres
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Green Acres is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acres
  • Greenfields
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenfields is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfields
  • Hillcrest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hillcrest is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
  • Holiday Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Howard Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Howard Hill is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard Hill
  • Kingsport
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Larkspur
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Larkspur is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larkspur
  • Lynn Garden
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lynn Garden is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Garden
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Mystic Valley
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Mystic Valley is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic Valley
    • Pettyjohn Mill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Pettyjohn Mill is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettyjohn Mill
    • Riverview
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Riverview is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
    • Rock City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Rock City is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock City
    • Scenic Woods
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Scenic Woods is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scenic Woods
    • Sunnyside
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunnyside is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
    • Sunset Hills
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Sunset Hills is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hills

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Harmony Hills and extending to:

  • Blountville, which is the Seat of Sullivan County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Harmony Hills to Blountville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 239 miles [384.6 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 338 miles [544 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,229 miles [10,024.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,939 miles [11,167.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,815 miles [7,749 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Harmony Hills) 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 Harmony Hills 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Harmony Hills 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 Harmony Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5807, Longitude: -82.5038       In this case, the coordinates for Harmony Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.201 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.872 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.774 degrees.