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 Mountain Home:
36.310662, -82.373196
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 Mountain Home
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Mountain Home.
Within Tennessee, the name Mountain Home is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lawrence County
This Mountain Home is located in Lawrence County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Mountain Home.
Arkansas
Baxter County
This Mountain Home is located in Baxter County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km]<1> to the west of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baxter County community of Mountain Home.
White County
This Mountain Home is located in White County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km] to the west of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Mountain Home.
California
Santa Clara County
This Mountain Home is located in Santa Clara County and lies 2,166 miles [3,485.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Clara County community of Mountain Home.
Tulare County
This Mountain Home is located in Tulare County and lies 2,009 miles [3,233.2 km] to the west of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tulare County community of Mountain Home.
Idaho
Elmore County
This Mountain Home is located in Elmore County and lies 1,818 miles [2,925.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elmore County community of Mountain Home.
Latah County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Mountain Home [Latah County].
North Carolina
Henderson County
This Mountain Home is located in Henderson County and lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<1> to the south of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Mountain Home.
McDowell County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mountain Home [McDowell County].
Texas
Kerr County
This Mountain Home is located in Kerr County and lies 1,067 miles [1,717.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kerr County community of Mountain Home.
Utah
Duchesne County
This Mountain Home is located in Duchesne County and lies 1,536 miles [2,472 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duchesne County community of Mountain Home.
Wyoming
Albany County
This Mountain Home is located in Albany County and lies 1,319 miles [2,122.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mountain Home that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Mountain Home.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mountain Home ...
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 Mountain Home to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mountain Home and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 245 miles [394.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Mountain Home to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 342 miles [550.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,236 miles [10,035.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,820 miles [7,757 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Mountain Home) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Mountain Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Mountain Home 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 Mountain Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3107, Longitude: -82.3732 In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.122 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.742 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.799 degrees.