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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 River Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to River Heights 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 River Heights:
    • 35.635627, -87.037227
    • 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 River Heights
  • 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 Maury County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Maury County
    • Since River Heights is near Williamson County and also Marshall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Williamson County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marshall 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 River Heights

Communities Also Named River Heights ...

We found six communities that are also named River Heights.

There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named River Heights.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Hardin County
      • This River Heights is located in Hardin County and lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the River Heights that is located in Maury County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardin County community of River Heights.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This River Heights is located in Hillsborough County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the River Heights that is located in Maury County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of River Heights.
    • Illinois
      • Saline 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 Illinois community of River Heights [Saline County].
    • North Carolina
      • Carteret County
      • This River Heights is located in Carteret County and lies 585 miles [941.5 km]<1> to the east of the River Heights that is located in Maury County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carteret County community of River Heights.
    • Ontario
      • This River Heights lies 980 miles [1,577.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the River Heights that is located in Maury County.
    • Utah
      • Cache County
      • This River Heights is located in Cache County and lies 1,394 miles [2,243.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the River Heights that is located in Maury County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cache County community of River Heights.

Curious and Interesting Names Near River Heights ...

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.

  • Bookers Ferry
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Bookers Ferry is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bookers Ferry
  • Creek Side
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Creek Side is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creek Side
  • Field Crest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Field Crest is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Crest
  • Flint Valley ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Flint Valley is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Valley
  • Idlewild
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Idlewild is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewild
  • Match
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Match is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Match
  • Pleasant Hills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Pleasant Hills is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hills
  • Rolling Fields
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Rolling Fields is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Fields
  • Royal Oaks
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Royal Oaks is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Oaks
  • Sunnyside
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sunnyside is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
  • Union Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Union Grove is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Grove

How Far From River Heights 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 River Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Columbia, which is the Seat of Maury County, lies just to the South.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from River Heights to Nashville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 593 miles [954.3 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 24 days and walking would take 34 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,460 miles [10,396.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,177 miles [11,550.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,053 miles [8,132 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- River Heights) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 River Heights 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 River Heights 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 River Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6356, Longitude: -87.0372       In this case, the coordinates for River Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.932 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.876 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.923 degrees.