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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 Perry Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Perry Park 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 Perry Park:
    • 36.483379, -86.851943
    • 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 Perry Park
  • 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 Robertson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Robertson County
    • Since Perry Park is near Davidson County and also Sumner County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davidson County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sumner 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 Perry Park

Communities Also Named Perry Park ...

We found four communities that are also named Perry Park.

Within Tennessee, the name Perry Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Douglas County
      • This Perry Park is located in Douglas County and lies 1,005 miles [1,617.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Perry Park that is located in Robertson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Perry Park.
    • Delaware
      • New Castle 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 Delaware community of Perry Park [New Castle County].
    • Kentucky
      • Owen County
      • This Perry Park is located in Owen County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Perry Park that is located in Robertson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Perry Park.
    • North Carolina
      • Lenoir County
      • This Perry Park is located in Lenoir County and lies 524 miles [843.3 km]<1> to the east of the Perry Park that is located in Robertson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Perry Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Perry Park ...

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.

  • Bobwhite ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bobwhite is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bobwhite
  • Chestnut Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Chestnut Grove is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Grove
  • Chestnut Orchard
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Chestnut Orchard is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Orchard
  • Eden Corner
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Eden Corner is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Corner
  • Forest Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Forest Grove is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
  • Glover Crossroad
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Glover Crossroad is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glover Crossroad
  • Green Valley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Green Valley is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Lakeview
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lakeview is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Ridgetop
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Ridgetop is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgetop
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,122 people

How Far From Perry Park to ...

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 Perry Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Springfield, which is the Seat of Robertson County, lies just to the Northwest.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Perry Park to Nashville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 561 miles [902.8 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 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,412 miles [10,319.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,132 miles [11,477.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,007 miles [8,058 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Perry Park) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Perry Park 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>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 Perry Park 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 Perry Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4834, Longitude: -86.8519       In this case, the coordinates for Perry Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.852 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.902 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.642 degrees.