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 Cedar Hills Estates:
34.933422, -91.964032
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 Cedar Hills Estates
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 Lonoke County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
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 Cedar Hills Estates
Communities Also Named Cedar Hills Estates ...
We found three communities that are also named Cedar Hills Estates.
Within Arkansas, the name Cedar Hills Estates is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Colbert County
This Cedar Hills Estates is located in Colbert County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the east of the Cedar Hills Estates that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colbert County community of Cedar Hills Estates.
Florida
Duval County
This Cedar Hills Estates is located in Duval County and lies 675 miles [1,086.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Cedar Hills Estates that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of Cedar Hills Estates.
North Carolina
Wake County
This Cedar Hills Estates is located in Wake County and lies 752 miles [1,210.2 km]<1> to the east of the Cedar Hills Estates that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Cedar Hills Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cedar Hills Estates ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cedar Hills Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cedar Hills Estates and extending to:
Lonoke, which is the Seat of Lonoke County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Cedar Hills Estates to Lonoke, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest (SW). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 867 miles [1,395.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 34 days and walking would take 50 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,689 miles [10,764.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,417 miles [11,936.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,294 miles [8,519.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Cedar Hills Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Cedar Hills Estates 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 Cedar Hills Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9334, Longitude: -91.9640 In this case, the coordinates for Cedar Hills Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.997 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.326 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.201 degrees.