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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 Mud Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mud Creek 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 Mud Creek:
    • 35.595630, -86.013321
    • 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 Mud Creek
  • 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 Coffee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee County
    • Since Mud Creek is near Cannon County and also Warren County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cannon County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Warren 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 Mud Creek

Communities Also Named Mud Creek ...

We found seven communities that are also named Mud Creek.

There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Mud Creek.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • McNairy County
      • This Mud Creek is located in McNairy County and lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the west of the Mud Creek that is located in Coffee County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McNairy County community of Mud Creek.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jackson 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 Alabama community of Mud Creek [Jackson County].
      • Jefferson County
      • This Mud Creek is located in Jefferson County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Mud Creek that is located in Coffee County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Mud Creek.
    • Georgia
      • Hall County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mud Creek [Hall County].
    • Kansas
      • Marion County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mud Creek [Marion County].
    • Mississippi
      • Pontotoc County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mud Creek [Pontotoc County].
    • Utah
      • Sanpete County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Mud Creek [Sanpete County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mud Creek ...

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.

  • Crisp ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Crisp is located in Cannon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp
  • Dawn ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Dawn is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawn
  • Forest Mill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Forest Mill is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Mill
  • Fountain Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Fountain Grove is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Grove
  • Holly ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Holly is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
  • Ivy Bluff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Ivy Bluff is located in Cannon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivy Bluff
  • Pocahontas
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pocahontas is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas
  • Ragsdale
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Ragsdale is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragsdale
  • Shady Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Shady Grove is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Summitville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Summitville is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville

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

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

  • Manchester, which is the Seat of Coffee County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Mud Creek to Nashville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 543 miles [873.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 31 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,420 miles [10,332 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,135 miles [11,482.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,010 miles [8,062.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mud Creek) 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 Mud Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Mud Creek 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.
<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 Mud Creek 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 Mud Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.5956, Longitude: -86.0133       In this case, the coordinates for Mud Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.302 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.144 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.50 degrees.