During the American Civil War, the Union tended to name the battles after the nearest watercourse, such as the Battle of Wilsons Creek and the Battle of Stones River, whereas the Confederates favoured the nearby towns, as in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Murfreesboro.

More generally, people often build houses out of the nearest available material, and often tradition and / or culture govern construction-materials, so whole towns, areas, counties or even states / countries may be built out of one main type of material.

In China, Korea and Japan, monasteries were situated in remote mountain areas in which the distance between the monastery and the nearest towns would make a daily almsround impossible.

The nearest larger towns are Kiel ( 86 km south ) and Odense in Denmark ( 92 km northeast ).

Until 1909 it was without railroad facilities, and the nearest shipping points were Colorado City on the south and still later the railroad towns in Fisher County on the east.

The nearest airport is at Friedrichshafen, which can be reached by a fast ferry service on the lake, which also connects Konstanz to other lakeside towns.

The nearest towns are Scone, Singleton, Dungog, Gloucester and East Gresford.

The nearest towns on the coast are Batemans Bay, Moruya and Narooma.

The nearest towns are Narooma and Cobargo in the east, and Cooma on the plateau in the west.

The nearest towns to the park are Baradine, Coonabarabran, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Gulargambone, and Tooraweenah.

The nearest towns to the park are Denham, which is found on the southern edge of the park and Carnarvon which is found about to the north.

The nearest cities and towns are Redwood City, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Atherton, San Carlos, Belmont, and Palo Alto.

The nearest shopping and commerce area to the village is in the towns of Sterling and Rock Falls, about 12 miles south of downtown Milledgeville, while the closest major shopping, entertainment, and city amenities are in Rockford, IL, which is about 45 miles to the northeast of downtown Milledgeville.

The nearest state highway is Massachusetts Route 2, also known as the Mohawk Trail, which runs through the neighboring towns.

Several general aviation airports are located in nearby towns, but the nearest national air service can be reached at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.

There are no significant population centers in the township ; the nearest towns are Arcadia to the south, Benzonia to the northeast, and Elberta to the northwest.

The nearest larger towns are Stralsund and Rostock.

The nearest towns are Arvidsjaur and Lycksele, at a distance of about 80 kilometers, taking about an hour to drive.

The nearest organized towns to Dauphin are Duncannon, a borough on the western shore of the river ; Halifax, a borough north of Peters Mountain ; and Harrisburg, the state capital to the south.

On the Oregon side the nearest large towns are Hood River and The Dalles.

The nearest large towns are Tutayev ( to the northwest ), Gavrilov-Yam ( to the south ), and Nerekhta ( to the southeast ).

Attempts to deduce the original flow of the Rubicon can be done only by studying written documents and other archaeological evidence such as Roman milestones, which indicate the distance between the ancient river and the nearest Roman towns.

The town is about south-west of Northampton and about north-west of Milton Keynes, the nearest main towns.

Many towns and cities have ' Midsummer Carnivals ' with fairs, concerts and fireworks either on or on the weekend nearest to Midsummer.

Questions and, particularly, exclamations are usually channeled along informal, horizontal lines not indicated in Figure 3 and seldom are carried beyond the nearest neighbor.

Traditional printed sources are subtitled by the ' epoch year, which refers to the positions of celestial objects at a given time to the nearest year ( e. g., J2005, J2007 ).

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf International Airport ( 80 km ), Cologne Bonn Airport ( 90 km ) and Maastricht Aachen Airport ( 40 km ).

The nearest allies of the anoa appear to be certain extinct buffaloes, the remains of which are found in the Siwalik Hills of northern India.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

For instance, if a competitor has bowled two bowls closer to the jack than their opponent's nearest, they are awarded two shots.

Celtic Reconstructionists usually celebrate Lá Bealtaine when the local hawthorn trees are in bloom, or on the full moon nearest this event.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Three of the five main Crux stars — Acrux, Mimosa, and Delta Crucis — are co-moving B-type members of the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, the nearest OB association to the Sun.

During Europa League games, due to UEFA specifications, the last blocks nearest to the Cottage are used to house away fans rather than the Putney stand.

** Players lined up outside the tackle box — more specifically, those lined up more than 7 yards from the center — will now be allowed to block below the waist only if they are blocking straight ahead or toward the nearest sideline.

Its nearest neighbors are the French islands of Guadeloupe, some north, and Martinique, about south.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.

The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is at Lough Navar Forest, about 8. 5 miles North West of Enniskillen.

Their depth is 65 cm and they are 2. 85 meters from the end of the nearest boards.

Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68, 561, 000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era ( since 1991 ), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.

Quarters are numbered from the dexter chief ( the corner nearest to the right shoulder of a man standing behind the shield ), proceeding across the top row, and then across the next row and so on.

The nearest major airports are at Edinburgh and Newcastle.

The nearest motorways are the A20 ( 10 kilometres ) connects to Rotterdam and the south and the A4 ( 17 kilometres ) which goes to The Hague and Amsterdam.

They usually celebrate the festival when the first stirrings of spring are felt, or on the full moon nearest this.

IPv6 addresses are classified by three types of networking methodologies: unicast addresses identify each network interface, anycast addresses identify a group of interfaces, usually at different locations of which the nearest one is automatically selected, and multicast addresses are used to deliver one packet to many interfaces.