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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 Southern Aire, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Southern Aire 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 Southern Aire:
    • 35.825343, -86.474992
    • 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 Southern Aire
  • 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 Rutherford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rutherford County
    • Since Southern Aire is near Williamson County and also Bedford 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 Bedford 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 Southern Aire

Communities Also Named Southern Aire ...

We found one communities that are also named Southern Aire.

Within Tennessee, the name Southern Aire is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Southern Aire in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson 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 Missouri community of Southern Aire [Jefferson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Southern Aire ...

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.

  • Dixieland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Dixieland is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixieland
  • Foxridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Foxridge is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxridge
  • Glaze
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Glaze is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glaze
  • Green Meadows
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Green Meadows is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows
  • Hickory Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Hickory Hills is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hills
  • Joyceland
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Joyceland is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyceland
  • Meadow Lane
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Meadow Lane is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lane
  • Overall
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Overall is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overall
  • Royal Court
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Royal Court is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Court
  • Stonebrook
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Stonebrook is located in Rutherford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonebrook

How Far From Southern Aire 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 Southern Aire to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Murfreesboro, which is the Seat of Rutherford County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<2> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Southern Aire to Nashville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 559 miles [899.6 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 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 6,428 miles [10,344.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,145 miles [11,498.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,020 miles [8,078.9 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 Southern Aire 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 from Point A (ie- Southern Aire) 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 Southern Aire 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 Southern Aire. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8253, Longitude: -86.4750       In this case, the coordinates for Southern Aire have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.594 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.513 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.639 degrees.