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 Beach Grove:
35.678692, -93.741859
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 Beach Grove
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 Franklin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Beach Grove.
Within Arkansas, the name Beach Grove is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Beach Grove is located in Lauderdale County and lies 358 miles [576.1 km]<1> to the east of the Beach Grove that is located in Franklin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Beach Grove.
British Columbia
This Beach Grove lies 1,740 miles [2,800.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Beach Grove that is located in Franklin County.
Kentucky
McLean County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Beach Grove [McLean County].
Michigan
Menominee County
This Beach Grove is located in Menominee County and lies 741 miles [1,192.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Beach Grove that is located in Franklin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Menominee County community of Beach Grove.
North Carolina
Beaufort County
This Beach Grove is located in Beaufort County and lies 951 miles [1,530.5 km]<1> to the east of the Beach Grove that is located in Franklin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaufort County community of Beach Grove.
Ohio
Meigs County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Meigs County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Meigs County community of Beach Grove.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Beach Grove ...
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.
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 Beach Grove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Beach Grove and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 105 miles [169 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Beach Grove to Little Rock, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 942 miles [1,516 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,719 miles [10,813.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,453 miles [11,994.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,333 miles [8,582.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Beach Grove) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Beach Grove 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.
<3>
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 Beach Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Beach Grove 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 Beach Grove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6787, Longitude: -93.7419 In this case, the coordinates for Beach Grove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.22 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.846 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.874 degrees.