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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 Maness, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Maness 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 Maness:
- 36.782311, -83.057668
- 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 Maness
- 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 Lee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lee County
- Since Maness is near Harlan County and also Scott County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Harlan County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Scott 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 Maness
Communities Also Named Maness ...
We found one communities that are also named Maness.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Maness.
Beyond Virginia.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Scott 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 Maness [Scott County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Maness ...
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.
- Ben Hur
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Bonny Blue
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Bonny Blue is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonny Blue
- Dominion
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Dominion is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominion
- Imperial ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Imperial is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imperial
- Lee ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Lee is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Mayflower
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Mayflower is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayflower
- Monarch
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Monarch is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monarch
- Pocket
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Pocket is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocket
- Stone Creek
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Stone Creek is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Creek
- Sulphur Springs
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sulphur Springs is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Springs
How Far From Maness to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Maness to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Maness and extending to:
- Jonesville, which is the Seat of Lee County, lies just to the South Southwest.
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 313 miles [503.7 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Maness to Richmond, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 18 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 13 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 359 miles [577.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,243 miles [10,047.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,955 miles [11,193 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,830 miles [7,773.1 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 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 Maness 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Maness) 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 Maness 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 Maness. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7823, Longitude: -83.0577 In this case, the coordinates for Maness have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.534 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.283 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.947 degrees. |
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