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 Clarendon:
34.694697, -91.309011
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 Clarendon
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 Monroe County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found thirteen communities that are also named Clarendon.
Within Arkansas, the name Clarendon is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kansas
Barton 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 Kansas community of Clarendon [Barton County].
Michigan
Calhoun County
This Clarendon is located in Calhoun County and lies 620 miles [997.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Clarendon.
New Brunswick
This Clarendon lies 1,501 miles [2,415.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
New York
Orleans County
This Clarendon is located in Orleans County and lies 920 miles [1,480.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of Clarendon.
North Carolina
Chatham 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 North Carolina community of Clarendon [Chatham County].
Columbus County
This Clarendon is located in Columbus County and lies 709 miles [1,141 km]<2> to the east of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbus County community of Clarendon.
Pennsylvania
Warren County
This Clarendon is located in Warren County and lies 822 miles [1,322.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Clarendon.
Quebec
This Clarendon lies 1,083 miles [1,742.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Clarendon is located in Anderson County and lies 493 miles [793.4 km]<2> to the east of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Clarendon.
Texas
Donley County
This Clarendon is located in Donley County and lies 543 miles [873.9 km]<2> to the west of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Donley County community of Clarendon.
Vermont
Rutland County
This Clarendon is located in Rutland County and lies 1,152 miles [1,854 km]<2> to the northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutland County community of Clarendon.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Clarendon is located in Arlington County and lies 836 miles [1,345.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Clarendon that is located in Monroe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Clarendon.
Wisconsin
Saint Croix 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 Wisconsin community of Clarendon [Saint Croix County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Clarendon ...
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 city such as Clarendon to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Clarendon and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Clarendon to Little Rock, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 839 miles [1,350.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, 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 6,676 miles [10,744 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,401 miles [11,910.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,277 miles [8,492.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 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 Clarendon 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>
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 from Point A (ie- Clarendon) 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 Clarendon 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 Clarendon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6947, Longitude: -91.3090
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.557 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.784 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.955 degrees.