RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Tennessee >> Cumberland County >> Taylors Chapel >> Tidbits & TriviaIndex...

Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Taylors Chapel, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Taylors Chapel 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 Taylors Chapel:
    • 35.926456, -85.168853
    • 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 Taylors Chapel
  • 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 Cumberland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland County
    • Since Taylors Chapel is near White County and also Putnam County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for White County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Putnam 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 Taylors Chapel

Communities Also Named Taylors Chapel ...

We found one communities that are also named Taylors Chapel.

There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Taylors Chapel.

Beyond Tennessee.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Fayette 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 Taylors Chapel [Fayette County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Taylors Chapel ...

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.

  • Camelot
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Camelot is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
  • Clarktown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Clarktown is located in White County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarktown
    • Estimated population in 2014: 146,806 people
  • Claysville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Claysville is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claysville
  • Fairyland
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Fairyland is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairyland
  • Foxfire
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Foxfire is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxfire
  • Hickory Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Hickory Hills is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hills
  • Hide-A-Way Hills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Hide-A-Way Hills is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hide-A-Way Hills
  • Holiday Hills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Howard Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Howard Springs is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard Springs
  • Livesay
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Livesay is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livesay
  • Neverfail ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Neverfail is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neverfail
  • Pleasant Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Ridgedale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Ridgedale is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgedale
    • Stringtown
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Stringtown is located in White County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
    • Todd Town
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Todd Town is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd Town
    • Volunteer Heights
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Volunteer Heights is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volunteer Heights

How Far From Taylors Chapel 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 Taylors Chapel to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Crossville, which is the Seat of Cumberland County, lies just to the East.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Taylors Chapel to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 490 miles [788.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 28 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,370 miles [10,251.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,084 miles [11,400.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,959 miles [7,980.7 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 Taylors Chapel 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- Taylors Chapel) 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 Taylors Chapel 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 Taylors Chapel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9265, Longitude: -85.1689       In this case, the coordinates for Taylors Chapel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.798 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.611 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.064 degrees.