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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 Ingram, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Ingram and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Ingram:
    • 36.744303, -79.158351
    • 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 Ingram
  • 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 Halifax County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Halifax County
    • Since Ingram is near Pittsylvania County and also Madison County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pittsylvania County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Madison 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 Ingram

Communities Also Named Ingram ...

We found fourteen communities that are also named Ingram.

Within Virginia, the name Ingram is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Hale County
      • This Ingram is located in Hale County and lies 545 miles [877.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hale County community of Ingram.
    • Arkansas
      • Randolph County
      • This Ingram is located in Randolph County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the west of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Ingram.
    • California
      • Mendocino County
      • This Ingram is located in Mendocino County and lies 2,382 miles [3,833.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mendocino County community of Ingram.
    • Kentucky
      • Bell County
      • This Ingram is located in Bell County and lies 256 miles [412 km]<1> to the west of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of Ingram.
    • Mississippi
      • Coahoma County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ingram [Coahoma County].
    • New Mexico
      • Roosevelt County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Ingram [Roosevelt County].
    • North Carolina
      • Anson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ingram [Anson County].
      • Northampton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ingram [Northampton County].
      • Richmond County
      • This Ingram is located in Richmond County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Ingram.
    • Oklahoma
      • Lincoln County
      • This Ingram is located in Lincoln County and lies 999 miles [1,607.7 km]<1> to the west of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Ingram.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • This Ingram is located in Allegheny County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the north of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Ingram.
    • Texas
      • Kerr County
      • This Ingram is located in Kerr County and lies 1,242 miles [1,998.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kerr County community of Ingram.
    • Wisconsin
      • Chippewa County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ingram [Chippewa County].
      • Rusk County
      • This Ingram is located in Rusk County and lies 854 miles [1,374.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Ingram that is located in Halifax County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rusk County community of Ingram.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Ingram ...

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.

  • Birch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Birch is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch
  • Ebenezer
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Ebenezer is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
  • Elmo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Elmo is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
  • Henrys Mill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Henrys Mill is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrys Mill
  • High Rock
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • High Rock is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rock
  • Lucks
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lucks is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucks
  • Pickaway
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Pickaway is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickaway
  • Pleasant Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Pleasant Grove is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
  • Red Oak Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Red Oak Hollow is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak Hollow
  • Sign Rock
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sign Rock is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sign Rock

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ingram and extending to:

  • Halifax, which is the Seat of Halifax County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Ingram to Halifax, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 109 miles [175.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 188 miles [302.6 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 6,081 miles [9,786.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,782 miles [10,914.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,660 miles [7,499.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Ingram) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ingram, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Ingram 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.
<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 Ingram 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 Ingram. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7443, Longitude: -79.1584       In this case, the coordinates for Ingram have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.227 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.637 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.359 degrees.