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 Saint Peters:
35.617301, -89.387294
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 Saint Peters
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 Haywood County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Saint Peters.
Within Tennessee, the name Saint Peters is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, four are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Logan 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 Colorado community of Saint Peters [Logan County].
Louisiana
Saint Charles Parish
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 Louisiana community of Saint Peters [Saint Charles Parish].
Manitoba
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Missouri
Saint Charles County
This Saint Peters is located in Saint Charles County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Saint Peters that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Charles County community of Saint Peters.
Nova Scotia
This Saint Peters lies 1,635 miles [2,631.3 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Saint Peters that is located in Haywood County.
Pennsylvania
Chester County
This Saint Peters is located in Chester County and lies 806 miles [1,297.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Saint Peters that is located in Haywood County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of Saint Peters.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Saint Peters ...
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.
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 Saint Peters to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Saint Peters and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Saint Peters to Nashville, with an average speed<3>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 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 714 miles [1,149.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,554 miles [10,547.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,278 miles [11,712.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,154 miles [8,294.6 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 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 Saint Peters 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Saint Peters) 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 Saint Peters 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 Saint Peters. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6173, Longitude: -89.3873 In this case, the coordinates for Saint Peters have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.40 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.568 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.939 degrees.