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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 Eldridge Corner:
34.297321, -91.473735
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 one communities that share the name Eldridge Corner.
Within Arkansas, the name Eldridge Corner is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, there is another community also named Eldridge Corner in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Virginia
Buckingham County
This Eldridge Corner is located in Buckingham County and lies 742 miles [1,194.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Eldridge Corner that is located in Arkansas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buckingham County community of Eldridge Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Eldridge Corner ...
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.
English (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for English have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Eldridge Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Eldridge Corner and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Eldridge Corner 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 859 miles [1,382.4 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 49 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,702 miles [10,785.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,427 miles [11,952.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,303 miles [8,534.4 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- Eldridge Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Eldridge Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2973, Longitude: -91.4737 In this case, the coordinates for Eldridge Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Eldridge Corner to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.629 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.814 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.097 degrees.