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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 Mouth-of-Laurel, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mouth-of-Laurel 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 Mouth-of-Laurel:
- 37.117059, -81.711779
- 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 Mouth-of-Laurel
- 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 Mouth-of-Laurel is near McDowell County and also Buchanan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for McDowell County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Buchanan 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 Mouth-of-Laurel
Communities Also Named Mouth-of-Laurel ...
We found one communities that are also named Mouth-of-Laurel.
Within Virginia, the name Mouth-of-Laurel is unique.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Mouth-of-Laurel in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
- Lewis 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 Mouth-of-Laurel [Lewis County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mouth-of-Laurel ...
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.
- Busthead
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Busthead is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Busthead
- Cedar Bluff
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gap Store
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Gap Store is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Store
- Indian
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Indian is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian
- Liberty
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Liberty is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Maxwell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Maxwell is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
- Pleasant Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Hill is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
- Pounding Mill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Rockhouse
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Rockhouse is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockhouse
- Seaboard
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Seaboard is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaboard
- Sulphur Spring ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Sulphur Spring is located in Tazewell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Spring
How Far From Mouth-of-Laurel 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 Mouth-of-Laurel to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Mouth-of-Laurel and extending to:
- Tazewell, which is the Seat of Tazewell County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Mouth-of-Laurel to Tazewell, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 236 miles [379.8 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 282 miles [453.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 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 6,881 miles [11,073.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,757 miles [7,655.6 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 Mouth-of-Laurel 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mouth-of-Laurel) 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 Mouth-of-Laurel 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 Mouth-of-Laurel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1171, Longitude: -81.7118 In this case, the coordinates for Mouth-of-Laurel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.726 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.406 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.284 degrees. |
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