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 Holly Grove:
35.656464, -89.128955
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 Holly Grove
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 Haywood County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Holly Grove.
There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Holly Grove.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Marshall County
This Holly Grove is located in Marshall County and lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<1> to the east of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Holly Grove.
Tipton County
This Holly Grove is located in Tipton County and lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tipton County community of Holly Grove.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Walker County
This Holly Grove is located in Walker County and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Walker County community of Holly Grove.
Arkansas
Monroe County
This Holly Grove is located in Monroe County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Holly Grove.
Polk County
This Holly Grove is located in Polk County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km] to the west southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Holly Grove.
Louisiana
Franklin Parish
This Holly Grove is located in Franklin Parish and lies 296 miles [476.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin Parish community of Holly Grove.
Maryland
Worcester County
This Holly Grove is located in Worcester County and lies 791 miles [1,273 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Holly Grove.
Mississippi
Carroll County
This Holly Grove is located in Carroll County and lies 165 miles [265.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Holly Grove.
North Carolina
Bertie 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 North Carolina community of Holly Grove [Bertie County].
Davidson County
This Holly Grove is located in Davidson County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the east of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Holly Grove.
Gates County
This Holly Grove is located in Gates County and lies 702 miles [1,129.8 km] to the east of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gates County community of Holly Grove.
Texas
Polk County
This Holly Grove is located in Polk County and lies 479 miles [770.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Holly Grove.
Virginia
Louisa County
This Holly Grove is located in Louisa County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Louisa County community of Holly Grove.
West Virginia
Upshur County
This Holly Grove is located in Upshur County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Holly Grove that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Upshur County community of Holly Grove.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Holly Grove ...
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 Holly Grove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Holly Grove and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 136 miles [218.9 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Holly Grove to Nashville, with an average speed<3>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 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 700 miles [1,126.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 40 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,542 miles [10,528.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,265 miles [11,691.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,141 miles [8,273.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Holly Grove) 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 Holly Grove 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 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 Holly Grove 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 Holly Grove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6565, Longitude: -89.1290 In this case, the coordinates for Holly Grove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.239 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.388 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.818 degrees.