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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 Lee Valley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lee Valley 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 Lee Valley:
    • 36.463147, -83.143504
    • 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 Lee Valley
  • 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 Hawkins County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hawkins County
    • Since Lee Valley is near Hancock County and also Grainger County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hancock County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Grainger 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 Lee Valley

Communities Also Named Lee Valley ...

We found two communities that are also named Lee Valley.

Within Tennessee, the name Lee Valley is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of two communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Nebraska
      • Douglas 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 Nebraska community of Lee Valley [Douglas County].
    • Ontario
      • This Lee Valley lies 675 miles [1,086.3 km]<2> to the north of the Lee Valley that is located in Hawkins County.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lee Valley ...

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.

  • Camelot
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Camelot is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
  • Chestnut Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Chestnut Grove is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Grove
  • Choptack
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Choptack is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Choptack
  • Cloud Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Cloud Creek is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloud Creek
  • Cuba
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cuba is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
  • Duck Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Duck Creek is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek
  • Friendship
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Friendship is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Frost Ford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Frost Ford is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Ford
  • Luther
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Luther is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
  • Quarryville ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Quarryville is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quarryville
  • Rock Hill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Rock Hill is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Hill
  • Spruce Pine
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Spruce Pine is located in Hawkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce Pine
  • Treadway
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Treadway is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Treadway

How Far From Lee Valley to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Lee Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Rogersville, which is the Seat of Hawkins County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Lee Valley to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 373 miles [600.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,261 miles [10,076.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,972 miles [11,220.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,848 miles [7,802.1 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 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 Lee Valley 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 '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- Lee Valley) 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 Lee Valley 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 Lee Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4631, Longitude: -83.1435       In this case, the coordinates for Lee Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.584 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.293 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.074 degrees.