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 Boles:
34.782016, -94.048126
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.
We found seven communities that share the name Boles.
Within Arkansas, the name Boles is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Modoc County
This Boles is located in Modoc County and lies 1,531 miles [2,463.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Boles that is located in Scott County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Modoc County community of Boles.
Idaho
Idaho County
This Boles is located in Idaho County and lies 1,401 miles [2,254.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Boles that is located in Scott County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Idaho County community of Boles.
Illinois
Johnson 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 Illinois community of Boles [Johnson County].
Kentucky
Monroe County
This Boles is located in Monroe County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Boles that is located in Scott County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Boles.
Missouri
Franklin County
This Boles is located in Franklin County and lies 312 miles [502.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Boles that is located in Scott County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Boles.
New Mexico
Otero 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 New Mexico community of Boles [Otero County].
Tennessee
Clay County
This Boles is located in Clay County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Boles that is located in Scott County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Boles.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Boles ...
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.
Buck Knob (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buck Knob have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Boles to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Boles and extending to:
Waldron, which is the Seat of Scott County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 101 miles [162.5 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Boles 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 three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 980 miles [1,577.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 39 days and walking would take 56 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,776 miles [10,904.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,509 miles [12,084.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,388 miles [8,671.1 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boles) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Boles. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7820, Longitude: -94.0481
<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 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 Boles 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Boles to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.341 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.871 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.157 degrees.