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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 Index, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Index and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Index:
    • 35.131474, -92.855724
    • 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 Index
  • 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 Conway County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Conway County
    • Since Index is near Yell County and also Perry County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Yell County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Perry 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 Index

Communities Also Named Index ...

We found ten communities that are also named Index.

There is one other community in Arkansas that is also named Index.

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

  • Communities Located In Arkansas ...
    • Miller County
      • This Index is located in Miller County and lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Index that is located in Conway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miller County community of Index.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jackson County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Index [Jackson County].
    • Kentucky
      • Morgan County
      • This Index is located in Morgan County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Index that is located in Conway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Index.
    • Michigan
      • Lapeer County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Index [Lapeer County].
    • Missouri
      • Cass County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Cass County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Index.
    • New York
      • Otsego County
      • This Index is located in Otsego County and lies 1,090 miles [1,754.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Index that is located in Conway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Otsego County community of Index.
    • North Carolina
      • Ashe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Index [Ashe County].
    • Virginia
      • King George County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Index [King George County].
    • Washington
      • Snohomish County
      • This Index is located in Snohomish County and lies 1,709 miles [2,750.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Index that is located in Conway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Index.
    • West Virginia
      • Calhoun County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Index [Calhoun County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Index ...

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.

  • Cherry Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Cherry Hill is located in Perry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
  • Deerwood
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Deerwood is located in Conway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerwood
  • Divide ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Divide is located in Conway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Fowler
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Fowler is located in Yell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler
  • Gold Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Gold Hill is located in Pope County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
  • Happy Bend
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Happy Bend is located in Pope County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Bend
  • Homewood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Homewood is located in Perry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood
  • Lakeview
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Lakeview is located in Yell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Lewisburg ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Lewisburg is located in Conway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisburg
  • Libby Ferry
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Libby Ferry is located in Conway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libby Ferry
  • Pontoon
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Pontoon is located in Conway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontoon
  • Reeds Ferry
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Reeds Ferry is located in Pope County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Ferry
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Riverview
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Riverview is located in Conway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
    • Sandtown ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Sandtown is located in Conway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandtown
    • Spring Meadows
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Spring Meadows is located in Conway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Meadows
    • Sweet Home
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Sweet Home is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Home

How Far From Index 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 Index to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic community of Index once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Index and extending to:

  • Morrilton, which is the Seat of Conway County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 43 miles [69.2 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Index to Little Rock, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 908 miles [1,461.3 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 36 days and walking would take 52 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,713 miles [10,803.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,444 miles [11,980 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,322 miles [8,564.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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- Index) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Index, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Index 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.
<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 Index 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 Index. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1315, Longitude: -92.8557       In this case, the coordinates for Index have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.591 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.044 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.564 degrees.