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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 Hiawassee, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hiawassee 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 Hiawassee:
    • 35.615073, -85.894429
    • 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 Hiawassee
  • 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 Warren County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Warren County
    • Since Hiawassee is near Coffee County and also Cannon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cannon 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 Hiawassee

Communities Also Named Hiawassee ...

We found two communities that are also named Hiawassee.

There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Hiawassee.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Hiawassee in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Polk 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 Hiawassee [Polk County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Towns County
      • This Hiawassee is located in Towns County and lies 128 miles [206 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Hiawassee that is located in Warren County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Towns County community of Hiawassee.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hiawassee ...

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
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Bethany is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany
  • Centertown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Centertown is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centertown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 256 people
  • Crisp ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Crisp is located in Cannon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp
  • Crisp Spring
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Crisp Spring is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp Spring
  • Dawn ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Dawn is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawn
  • Fountain Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Fountain Grove is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Grove
  • Mud Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Mud Creek is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Creek
  • New ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • New is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New
  • Oak Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Grove is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Shady Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Shady Grove is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Smartt
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Smartt is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smartt
  • Summitville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Summitville is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville

How Far From Hiawassee to ...

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 Hiawassee to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • McMinnville, which is the Seat of Warren County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 62 miles [99.8 km]<2> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Hiawassee to Nashville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 536 miles [862.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,414 miles [10,322.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,129 miles [11,473 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,004 miles [8,053.2 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 Hiawassee 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 from Point A (ie- Hiawassee) 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 Hiawassee 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 Hiawassee. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6151, Longitude: -85.8944       In this case, the coordinates for Hiawassee have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.23 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.064 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.445 degrees.