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 Mount Union:
36.536455, -85.106342
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 Mount Union
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 Pickett County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Mount Union.
There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Mount Union.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Jackson County
This Mount Union is located in Jackson County and lies 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Mount Union.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Conecuh County
This Mount Union is located in Conecuh County and lies 368 miles [592.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Conecuh County community of Mount Union.
Iowa
Henry County
This Mount Union is located in Henry County and lies 460 miles [740.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Mount Union.
Kansas
Pottawatomie 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 Kansas community of Mount Union [Pottawatomie County].
Kentucky
Allen 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 Kentucky community of Mount Union [Allen County].
Louisiana
Union Parish
This Mount Union is located in Union Parish and lies 490 miles [788.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union Parish community of Mount Union.
Ohio
Holmes County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Union [Holmes County].
Stark County
This Mount Union is located in Stark County and lies 370 miles [595.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Mount Union.
Pennsylvania
Franklin County
This Mount Union is located in Franklin County and lies 473 miles [761.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Mount Union.
Huntingdon County
This Mount Union is located in Huntingdon County and lies 472 miles [759.6 km] to the northeast of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Mount Union.
Texas
Jasper County
This Mount Union is located in Jasper County and lies 651 miles [1,047.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jasper County community of Mount Union.
Virginia
Botetourt County
This Mount Union is located in Botetourt County and lies 290 miles [466.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mount Union that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Botetourt County community of Mount Union.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mount Union ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Mount Union to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mount Union and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Mount Union to Nashville, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 469 miles [754.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,339 miles [10,201.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,054 miles [11,352.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,930 miles [7,934.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
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 from Point A (ie- Mount Union) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mount Union 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Mount Union, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Mount Union 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 Mount Union. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5365, Longitude: -85.1063 In this case, the coordinates for Mount Union have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.776 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.672 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.879 degrees.