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 Whispering Hills:
36.064798, -86.726537
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 Whispering Hills
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Whispering Hills.
There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Whispering Hills.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Knox County
This Whispering Hills is located in Knox County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<1> to the east of the Whispering Hills that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Whispering Hills.
White County
This Whispering Hills is located in White County and lies 69 miles [111 km]<1> to the east of the Whispering Hills that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Whispering Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Whispering Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Whispering Hills that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Whispering Hills.
Alberta
This Whispering Hills lies 1,811 miles [2,914.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Whispering Hills that is located in Davidson County.
Arizona
Cochise 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 Arizona community of Whispering Hills [Cochise County].
Florida
Brevard 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 Florida community of Whispering Hills [Brevard County].
Illinois
McHenry 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 Whispering Hills [McHenry County].
Kentucky
Jefferson 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 Kentucky community of Whispering Hills [Jefferson County].
Missouri
Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Whispering Hills [Saint Louis County].
South Carolina
York County
This Whispering Hills is located in York County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Whispering Hills that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Whispering Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whispering Hills ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Whispering Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whispering Hills and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 565 miles [909.3 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Whispering Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 33 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,427 miles [10,343.3 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>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Whispering Hills) 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 Whispering Hills 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 Whispering Hills 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 Whispering Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0648, Longitude: -86.7265
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.758 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.736 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.689 degrees.