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 Pebble Creek:
36.073671, -86.659719
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 Pebble 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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Pebble Creek.
Within Tennessee, the name Pebble Creek is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Pebble Creek is located in Hillsborough County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Pebble Creek that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Pebble Creek.
Georgia
Gwinnett County
This Pebble Creek is located in Gwinnett County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km]<1> to the southeast of the Pebble Creek that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Pebble Creek.
Illinois
Will County
This Pebble Creek is located in Will County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<1> to the north of the Pebble Creek that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Pebble Creek.
North Carolina
Henderson County
This Pebble Creek is located in Henderson County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Pebble Creek that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Pebble Creek.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Pebble Creek is located in Greenville County and lies 255 miles [410.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Pebble Creek that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Pebble Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pebble 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.
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 Pebble Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pebble Creek and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 561 miles [902.8 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Pebble Creek to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 32 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,424 miles [10,338.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,142 miles [11,493.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,017 miles [8,074.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pebble Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Pebble 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 Pebble Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0737, Longitude: -86.6597 In this case, the coordinates for Pebble Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.717 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.69 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.658 degrees.