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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 Country Club, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Country Club 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 Country Club:
    • 34.729536, -92.073477
    • 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 Country Club
  • 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:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lonoke County
    • Since Country Club is near Pulaski County and also Faulkner County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pulaski County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Faulkner 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 Country Club

Communities Also Named Country Club ...

We found six communities that are also named Country Club.

Within Arkansas, the name Country Club is unique.

Beyond Arkansas, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Joaquin County
      • This Country Club is located in San Joaquin County and lies 1,636 miles [2,632.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Country Club that is located in Lonoke County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Joaquin County community of Country Club.
    • Florida
      • Miami-Dade County
      • This Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County and lies 925 miles [1,488.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Country Club that is located in Lonoke County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami-Dade County community of Country Club.
    • Missouri
      • Andrew County
      • This Country Club is located in Andrew County and lies 383 miles [616.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Country Club that is located in Lonoke County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Andrew County community of Country Club.
      • Jackson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Country Club [Jackson County].
    • New York
      • Bronx County
      • This Country Club is located in Bronx County and lies 1,079 miles [1,736.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Country Club that is located in Lonoke County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bronx County community of Country Club.
    • Ohio
      • Hamilton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Country Club [Hamilton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Club ...

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.

  • Bevis Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Bevis Corner is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bevis Corner
  • Booker
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Booker is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Booker
  • Charity ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Charity is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charity
  • Dickey ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Dickey is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickey
  • Dixie
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Dixie is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
  • Eureka Garden
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Eureka Garden is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka Garden
  • Fairman
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Fairman is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairman
  • Furlow
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Furlow is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furlow
  • Meto ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Meto is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meto
  • Pecan Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Pecan Grove is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Grove
  • Rose City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Rose City is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose City
  • Silver Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Silver Creek is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek
  • Union Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Union Valley is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Valley
  • Valentine
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Valentine is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valentine

How Far From Country Club to ...

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 Country Club to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Country Club and extending to:

  • Lonoke, which is the Seat of Lonoke County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Country Club to Lonoke, with an average speed<3> 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 10 miles [16.1 km] to the west (W). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 878 miles [1,413 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 35 days and walking would take 50 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,704 miles [10,789 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,431 miles [11,959 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,308 miles [8,542.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 from Point A (ie- Country Club) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Country Club 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.
<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 Country Club 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 Country Club. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7295, Longitude: -92.0735       In this case, the coordinates for Country Club have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.05 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.361 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.285 degrees.