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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 Roark Cove, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Roark Cove 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 Roark Cove:
    • 35.247026, -85.930257
    • 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 Roark Cove
  • 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 Franklin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin County
    • Since Roark Cove is near Coffee County and also Grundy County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Coffee County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Grundy 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 Roark Cove

Communities Also Named Roark Cove ...

We found one communities that are also named Roark Cove.

There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Roark Cove.

Beyond Tennessee.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Coffee 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 Tennessee community of Roark Cove [Coffee County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Roark Cove ...

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.

  • Bobtown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Bobtown is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bobtown
  • Clifftops
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Clifftops is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifftops
  • Greenhaw
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Greenhaw is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhaw
  • Greens View
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Greens View is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens View
  • Gum Creek
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Gum Creek is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Creek
  • Oak Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Oak Grove is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Providence
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Providence is located in Grundy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence
  • Ruthledge Ford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Ruthledge Ford is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthledge Ford
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,116 people
  • Ruthledge Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Ruthledge Hill is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthledge Hill
  • Sand Switch
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Sand Switch is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Switch
  • Shady Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Shady Grove is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Valley Home
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Valley Home is located in Grundy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Home

How Far From Roark Cove 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 Roark Cove to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Winchester, which is the Seat of Franklin County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Roark Cove to Winchester, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 78 miles [125.5 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 550 miles [885.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving 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 6,433 miles [10,352.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,146 miles [11,500.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,022 miles [8,082.1 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 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 Roark Cove 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 '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- Roark Cove) 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 Roark Cove 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 Roark Cove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2470, Longitude: -85.9303       In this case, the coordinates for Roark Cove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.237 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.021 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.549 degrees.