Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Falling Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Falling Creek and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Falling Creek
- 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 Falling Creek:
- 37.296804, -79.859760
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Falling Creek
- 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 Roanoke County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Roanoke County
- Since Falling Creek is near Roanoke City and also Botetourt County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Roanoke City
- eBird sighting report for Botetourt 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Falling Creek ...
We found two communities that share the name Falling Creek.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Falling Creek.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Falling Creek in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Chesterfield 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 Virginia community of Falling Creek [Chesterfield County].
- Chesterfield County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Lenoir County
- This Falling Creek is located in Lenoir County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<2> to the southeast of the Falling Creek that is located in Roanoke County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Falling Creek.
- North Carolina
Curious and Interesting Names Near Falling Creek ...
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.
- Bluestone
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Colonial Trail
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colonial Trail have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Trail
- Colonial Trail is located in Roanoke County
- Foxfire
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south) - Hickory Woods
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hickory Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Woods
- Hickory Woods is located in Roanoke City
- Huntridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest) - Lilly View
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lilly View have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lilly View
- Lilly View is located in Roanoke City
- Lynn Haven
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lynn Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Haven
- Lynn Haven is located in Roanoke County
- Mayflower Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mayflower Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayflower Hills
- Mayflower Hills is located in Roanoke County
- Meadowview
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadowview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowview
- Meadowview is located in Roanoke City
- Muse
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast) - Peachtree
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north) - River Edge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for River Edge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Edge
- River Edge is located in Roanoke County
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- Rockydale
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Sleepy Hollow
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sleepy Hollow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Hollow
- Sleepy Hollow is located in Roanoke City
- Spring Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
- Spring Grove is located in Roanoke County
- Springtree
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springtree have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springtree
- Springtree is located in Roanoke City
- Stepping Stone
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stepping Stone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stepping Stone
- Stepping Stone is located in Botetourt County
- Sunrise Heights
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Heights
- Sunrise Heights is located in Roanoke City
- Rockydale
How Far From Falling Creek 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 Falling Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Falling Creek and extending to:
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Falling Creek to Richmond, with an average speed<4>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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 189 miles [304.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,086 miles [9,794.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,791 miles [10,929.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,668 miles [7,512.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Falling Creek. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Roanoke County: www.roanokecountyva.gov/
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
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 Falling Creek 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' (or 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- Falling Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Falling Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2968, Longitude: -79.8598 In this case, the coordinates for Falling Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Falling Creek to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.624 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.172 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.46 degrees. |