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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 Red Sulphur Springs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Red Sulphur Springs 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 Red Sulphur Springs:
    • 35.007030, -88.237540
    • 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 Red Sulphur Springs
  • 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 Hardin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hardin County
    • Since Red Sulphur Springs is near Lauderdale County and also Tishomingo County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lauderdale County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tishomingo 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 Red Sulphur Springs

Communities Also Named Red Sulphur Springs ...

We found one communities that are also named Red Sulphur Springs.

Within Tennessee, the name Red Sulphur Springs is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Red Sulphur Springs in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • West Virginia
      • Monroe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Red Sulphur Springs [Monroe County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Red Sulphur Springs ...

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.

  • Cooks Landing
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Cooks Landing is located in Tishomingo County (MS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooks Landing
  • Cross Roads
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cross Roads is located in Tishomingo County (MS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
  • Haddock ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Haddock is located in Lauderdale County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddock
  • High Point
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • High Point is located in Tishomingo County (MS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
  • Holiday Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Pickwick Ferry
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Pickwick Ferry is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickwick Ferry
  • Sand Mountain ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Sand Mountain is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Mountain
  • Short
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Short is located in Tishomingo County (MS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short
  • Slab Town ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Slab Town is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Town
  • Tucker Landing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Tucker Landing is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucker Landing
  • Walnut Grove ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Hardin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove

How Far From Red Sulphur Springs 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 Red Sulphur Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Red Sulphur Springs and extending to:

  • Savannah, which is the Seat of Hardin County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Red Sulphur Springs to Savannah, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 114 miles [183.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 673 miles [1,083.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 39 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,538 miles [10,521.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,257 miles [11,679 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,132 miles [8,259.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Red Sulphur Springs 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.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Red Sulphur Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Red Sulphur Springs 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 Red Sulphur Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0070, Longitude: -88.2375       In this case, the coordinates for Red Sulphur Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.643 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.61 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.572 degrees.