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 Hydes Ferry:
36.191445, -86.827777
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 Hydes Ferry
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Hydes Ferry.
Within Tennessee, the name Hydes Ferry is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Hydes Ferry in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Texas
Houston County
This Hydes Ferry is located in Houston County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hydes Ferry that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Hydes Ferry.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hydes Ferry ...
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 Hydes Ferry to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hydes Ferry and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 567 miles [912.5 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Hydes Ferry to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 33 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,425 miles [10,340 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,144 miles [11,497.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,019 miles [8,077.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hydes Ferry) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Hydes Ferry 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 Hydes Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1914, Longitude: -86.8278 In this case, the coordinates for Hydes Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.826 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.831 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.702 degrees.