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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 Raysville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Raysville 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 Raysville:
    • 35.330357, -86.316380
    • 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 Raysville
  • 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 Moore County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Moore County
    • Since Raysville is near Bedford County and also Coffee County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bedford County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee 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 Raysville

Communities Also Named Raysville ...

We found three communities that are also named Raysville.

Within Tennessee, the name Raysville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • McDuffie County
      • This Raysville is located in McDuffie County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Raysville that is located in Moore County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McDuffie County community of Raysville.
    • Indiana
      • Henry County
      • This Raysville is located in Henry County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the north of the Raysville that is located in Moore County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Raysville.
    • Ohio
      • Jackson 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 Ohio community of Raysville [Jackson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Raysville ...

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.

  • Bakertown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Bakertown is located in Moore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakertown
  • Bottle Hollow
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bottle Hollow is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bottle Hollow
  • Countyline
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Countyline is located in Moore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countyline
  • Flat Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Flat Creek is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Creek
  • Flowertown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Flowertown is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowertown
  • Hickory Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Hilltop
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Hilltop is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
  • Johnstown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Johnstown is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
  • Lynchburg
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Moore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Sevenmile Hill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sevenmile Hill is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Hill
  • Turkey Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Turkey Creek is located in Moore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Creek
  • Willow Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Willow Grove is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove

How Far From Raysville to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Raysville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Lynchburg, which is the Seat of Moore County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 62 miles [99.8 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could walk a straight line from Raysville 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 about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 566 miles [910.9 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 23 days and walking would take 33 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,445 miles [10,372.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,159 miles [11,521.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,035 miles [8,103 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Raysville) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Raysville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Raysville 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 Raysville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3304, Longitude: -86.3164       In this case, the coordinates for Raysville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.476 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.308 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.69 degrees.