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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 Lowryville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lowryville 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 Lowryville:
    • 35.105277, -88.098794
    • 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 Lowryville
  • 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 Hardin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hardin County
    • Since Lowryville is near Lauderdale County and also Wayne County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lauderdale County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne 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 Lowryville

Communities Also Named Lowryville ...

We found one communities that are also named Lowryville.

Within Tennessee, the name Lowryville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • South Carolina
      • Chester 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 South Carolina community of Lowryville [Chester County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lowryville ...

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.

  • Big Ivy
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Big Ivy is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Ivy
  • Center Star
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Center Star is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Star
  • Haddock ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Haddock is located in Lauderdale County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddock
  • Holiday Hills
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Nixon
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Nixon is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nixon
    • Estimated population in 2014: 718 people
  • Pickwick Ferry
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Pickwick Ferry is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickwick Ferry
  • Ransom Stand
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Ransom Stand is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ransom Stand
  • Sand Mountain ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sand Mountain is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Mountain
  • Slab Town ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Slab Town is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Town
  • Stout
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Stout is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout
  • Walkertown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Walkertown is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkertown
  • Walnut Grove ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Lowryville and extending to:

  • Savannah, which is the Seat of Hardin County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Lowryville to Savannah, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 103 miles [165.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 4 days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 663 miles [1,067 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 38 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,528 miles [10,505.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,247 miles [11,662.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,122 miles [8,243.1 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 Lowryville 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lowryville) 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 Lowryville 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 Lowryville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1053, Longitude: -88.0988       In this case, the coordinates for Lowryville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.563 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.531 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.492 degrees.