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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 Liberty Hall, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Liberty Hall 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 Liberty Hall:
    • 35.768127, -89.036175
    • 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 Liberty Hall
  • 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 Crockett County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Crockett County
    • Since Liberty Hall is near Bedford County and also Madison County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bedford County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Madison 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 Liberty Hall

Communities Also Named Liberty Hall ...

We found one communities that are also named Liberty Hall.

Within Tennessee, the name Liberty Hall is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Yell 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 Arkansas community of Liberty Hall [Yell County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Liberty Hall ...

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.

  • Cairo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Cairo is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo
  • Christian Chapel
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Christian Chapel is located in Gibson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Chapel
  • Crossroads
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Crossroads is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
  • Cypress
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Cypress is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress
  • Fruitvale
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Fruitvale is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitvale
  • Gum Flat
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gum Flat is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Flat
  • Humboldt
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Jones
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jones is located in Haywood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones
  • Mason Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Mason Grove is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason Grove
  • Poplar Corner
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Poplar Corner is located in Haywood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Corner
  • Porters Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Porters Grove is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porters Grove
  • Providence
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Providence is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence
  • Walnut Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Walnut Hill is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill
  • Windy City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Windy City is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy City

How Far From Liberty Hall 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 Liberty Hall to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Liberty Hall and extending to:

  • Alamo, which is the Seat of Crockett County, lies just to the West Northwest.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<3> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Liberty Hall to Nashville, with an average speed<4>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 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 692 miles [1,113.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 40 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,533 miles [10,513.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,256 miles [11,677.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,132 miles [8,259.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 Liberty Hall 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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- Liberty Hall) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Liberty Hall 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 Liberty Hall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7681, Longitude: -89.0362       In this case, the coordinates for Liberty Hall have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.187 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.343 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.754 degrees.