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 Cotton Town:
35.367586, -93.644358
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 Cotton 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 Logan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Cotton Town.
There is one other community in Arkansas that is also named Cotton Town.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Arkansas ...
Yell County
This Cotton Town is located in Yell County and lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Cotton Town that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yell County community of Cotton Town.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Blair County
This Cotton Town is located in Blair County and lies 892 miles [1,435.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cotton Town that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blair County community of Cotton Town.
Virginia
Cumberland County
This Cotton Town is located in Cumberland County and lies 863 miles [1,388.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cotton Town that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Cotton Town.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cotton 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.
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 Cotton Town to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cotton Town and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 89 miles [143.2 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Cotton 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 5 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 944 miles [1,519.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,731 miles [10,832.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,465 miles [12,013.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,343 miles [8,598.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Cotton Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Cotton 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 Cotton Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3676, Longitude: -93.6444 In this case, the coordinates for Cotton Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.129 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.70 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.881 degrees.