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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 Jewell Ridge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Jewell Ridge 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 Jewell Ridge:
- 37.184835, -81.788447
- 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 Jewell Ridge
- 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 Tazewell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Tazewell County
- Since Jewell Ridge is near Buchanan County and also McDowell County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Buchanan County
- Open the eBird sighting report for McDowell 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 Jewell Ridge
Communities Also Named Jewell Ridge ...
We found one communities that are also named Jewell Ridge.
Within Virginia, the name Jewell Ridge is unique.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Jewell Ridge in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
- Perry 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 Kentucky community of Jewell Ridge [Perry County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jewell Ridge ...
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.
- Bearwallow
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Bearwallow is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bearwallow
- Busthead
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Busthead is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Busthead
- Cedar Bluff
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Fork Ridge
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Fork Ridge is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fork Ridge
- Height
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Height is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Height
- Horn
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Horn is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
- Indian
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Indian is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian
- Jewell Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jewell Valley is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewell Valley
- Peapatch
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Peapatch is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peapatch
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Pleasant Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Pleasant Hill is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
- Premier
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Premier is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Premier
- Raven
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Raven is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven
- Red Ash
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Red Ash is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Ash
- Seaboard
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Seaboard is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaboard
- Sulphur Spring ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Sulphur Spring is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Spring
How Far From Jewell Ridge 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 Jewell Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Jewell Ridge and extending to:
- Tazewell, which is the Seat of Tazewell County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Jewell Ridge to Tazewell, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 240 miles [386.2 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 284 miles [457.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 17 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,172 miles [9,932.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,758 miles [7,657.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Jewell Ridge 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Jewell Ridge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Jewell Ridge 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 Jewell Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1848, Longitude: -81.7884 In this case, the coordinates for Jewell Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.771 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.468 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.296 degrees. |
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