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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 Buck Snort, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Buck Snort 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 Buck Snort:
- 35.893129, -90.649278
- 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 Buck Snort
- 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 Craighead County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Craighead County
- Since Buck Snort is near Greene County and also Poinsett County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Greene County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Poinsett 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 Buck Snort
Communities Also Named Buck Snort ...
We found one communities that are also named Buck Snort.
Within Arkansas, the name Buck Snort is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, there is another community also named Buck Snort in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Tennessee
- Lincoln 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 Tennessee community of Buck Snort [Lincoln County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Buck Snort ...
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.
- Bono
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Burnt Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Burnt Hill is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Hill
- Dorothy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Dorothy is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy
- Ebenezer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Ebenezer is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
- Fiftysix
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fiftysix is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiftysix
- Finch
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Finch is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
- Goobertown
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Goobertown is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goobertown
- Herman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Herman is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herman
- March ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- March is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for March
- Maysville ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Maysville is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maysville
- Pine Knot
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Pine Knot is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Knot
- Pleasant Grove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Pleasant Grove is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
How Far From Buck Snort to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Buck Snort to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Buck Snort and extending to:
- Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<3> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Buck Snort to Little Rock, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 774 miles [1,245.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 31 days and walking would take 44 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,590 miles [10,605.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,318 miles [11,777.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,194 miles [8,358.9 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Buck Snort 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 '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- Buck Snort) 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 Buck Snort 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 Buck Snort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8931, Longitude: -90.6493 In this case, the coordinates for Buck Snort have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.222 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.556 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.439 degrees. |
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