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 Coy:
34.540476, -91.871132
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.
We found seven communities that are also named Coy.
Within Arkansas, the name Coy is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Wilcox County
This Coy is located in Wilcox County and lies 313 miles [503.7 km]<1> to the southeast of the Coy that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilcox County community of Coy.
Georgia
Douglas 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 Georgia community of Coy [Douglas County].
Kentucky
Marshall 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 Kentucky community of Coy [Marshall County].
Mississippi
Kemper County
This Coy is located in Kemper County and lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Coy that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kemper County community of Coy.
Missouri
McDonald County
This Coy is located in McDonald County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Coy that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McDonald County community of Coy.
Pennsylvania
Indiana County
This Coy is located in Indiana County and lies 809 miles [1,302 km]<1> to the northeast of the Coy that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Indiana County community of Coy.
Utah
Weber County
This Coy is located in Weber County and lies 1,187 miles [1,910.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Coy that is located in Lonoke County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Coy.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Coy ...
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 (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
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 town such as Coy to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Coy and extending to:
Lonoke, which is the Seat of Lonoke County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Coy to Lonoke, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 26 miles [41.8 km] to the west northwest (WNW). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 873 miles [1,405 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,705 miles [10,790.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,432 miles [11,960.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,308 miles [8,542.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Coy) 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 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 Coy 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Coy 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 Coy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5405, Longitude: -91.8711 In this case, the coordinates for Coy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.904 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.166 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.228 degrees.