Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Riceville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Riceville and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Riceville
- 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 Riceville:
- 35.384795, -84.692994
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Riceville
- 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 McMinn County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for McMinn County
- Since Riceville is near Bradley County and also Polk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Bradley County
- eBird sighting report for Polk 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Riceville ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Riceville.
Within Tennessee, the name Riceville is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Cherokee County
- This community is historic<2> and although located in Cherokee County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Riceville.
- Saline 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 Riceville [Saline County].
- Kentucky
- Fulton County
- This Riceville is located in Fulton County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Riceville that is located in McMinn County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Riceville.
- Johnson County
- This Riceville is located in Johnson County and lies 189 miles [304.2 km] to the north northeast of the Riceville that is located in McMinn County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Riceville.
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Harrison County
- This Riceville is located in Harrison County and lies 424 miles [682.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Riceville that is located in McMinn County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Riceville.
- Pearl River 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 Mississippi community of Riceville [Pearl River County].
- Montana
- New Brunswick
- New York
- Cattaraugus County
- This Riceville is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 586 miles [943.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Riceville that is located in McMinn County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Riceville.
- Fulton County
- This Riceville is located in Fulton County and lies 769 miles [1,237.6 km] to the northeast of the Riceville that is located in McMinn County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Riceville.
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Riceville ...
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.
- Cedar Springs
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Springs
- Cedar Springs is located in McMinn County
- Double Springs
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Double Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Springs
- Double Springs is located in McMinn County
- Folger ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Georgetown
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Georgetown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
- Georgetown is located in McMinn County
- Hillsview
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Idlewild
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north) - Piney Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Piney Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove
- Piney Grove is located in McMinn County
- Poplar Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poplar Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Hill
- Poplar Hill is located in McMinn County
- Spring Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
- Spring Creek is located in McMinn County
- Suburban Hills
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Suburban Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suburban Hills
- Suburban Hills is located in McMinn County
How Far From Riceville 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 Riceville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Riceville and extending to:
- Athens, which is the Seat of McMinn County, lies just to the Northeast.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Riceville to Nashville, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 486 miles [782.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 28 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,376 miles [10,261.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,086 miles [11,403.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,962 miles [7,985.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Riceville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for McMinn County: www.mcminncounty.org/
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Riceville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Riceville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3848, Longitude: -84.6930 In this case, the coordinates for Riceville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Riceville, 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 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 Riceville 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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Riceville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.494 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.185 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.004 degrees. |