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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 Bone Town, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bone Town and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Bone Town:
    • 36.044793, -91.776534
    • 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 Bone Town
  • 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 Izard County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Izard County
    • Since Bone Town is near Sharp County and also Independence County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sharp County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Independence 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 Bone Town

Communities Also Named Bone Town ...

We found one communities that are also named Bone Town.

Within Arkansas, the name Bone Town is unique.

Beyond Arkansas, there is another community also named Bone Town in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • We haven't found the location of this community yet.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Bone Town ...

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.

  • Evening Shade
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Franklin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jett ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jett is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jett
  • LaCrosse
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • LaCrosse is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaCrosse
  • Love ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Love is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Love
  • Melbourne
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Mount Pleasant
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Needmore
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Needmore is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore
  • Sage
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Sage is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
  • Violet Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Violet Hill is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet Hill
  • Zion
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Zion is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion

How Far From Bone Town 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 Bone Town to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Bone Town and extending to:

  • Melbourne, which is the Seat of Izard County, lies just to the West.
  • Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 94 miles [151.3 km]<2> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Bone Town to Little Rock, with an average speed<3>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 most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 830 miles [1,335.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 48 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,626 miles [10,663.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,357 miles [11,839.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,235 miles [8,424.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bone Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Bone Town 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 Bone Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0448, Longitude: -91.7765       In this case, the coordinates for Bone Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.96 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.432 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.915 degrees.