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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 Moorefield, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Moorefield 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 Moorefield:
    • 35.767503, -91.571431
    • 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 Moorefield
  • 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 Independence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Independence County
    • Since Moorefield is near Sharp County and also Cleburne County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sharp County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cleburne 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 Moorefield

Communities Also Named Moorefield ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Moorefield.

Within Arkansas, the name Moorefield is unique.

Beyond Arkansas, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Chambers County
      • This Moorefield is located in Chambers County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chambers County community of Moorefield.
      • Talladega County
      • This Moorefield is located in Talladega County and lies 350 miles [563.3 km] to the east southeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talladega County community of Moorefield.
    • Indiana
      • Marion 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 Indiana community of Moorefield [Marion County].
      • Switzerland County
      • This Moorefield is located in Switzerland County and lies 409 miles [658.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Switzerland County community of Moorefield.
    • Kentucky
      • Nicholas County
      • This Moorefield is located in Nicholas County and lies 455 miles [732.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nicholas County community of Moorefield.
    • Nebraska
      • Frontier County
      • This Moorefield is located in Frontier County and lies 586 miles [943.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frontier County community of Moorefield.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Moorefield lies 1,548 miles [2,491.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
    • Ohio
      • Clark 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 Moorefield [Clark County].
      • Harrison County
      • This Moorefield is located in Harrison County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Moorefield.
    • Ontario
      • This Moorefield lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
    • South Carolina
      • Berkeley County
      • This Moorefield is located in Berkeley County and lies 670 miles [1,078.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Moorefield.
    • West Virginia
      • Hardy County
      • This Moorefield is located in Hardy County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moorefield that is located in Independence County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardy County community of Moorefield.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Moorefield ...

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.

  • Charlotte
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Charlotte is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
  • Hickory Valley
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Hickory Valley is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Valley
  • Jamestown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jamestown is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
  • Limedale
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Limedale is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limedale
  • Limedale Junction
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Limedale Junction is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limedale Junction
  • Locust Grove
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Locust Grove is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
  • Maple Springs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Maple Springs is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Springs
  • Meadow Heights
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Meadow Heights is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Heights
  • Pleasant Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Quail Valley
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Quail Valley is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Valley
  • Riverview
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Riverview is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
  • Sandtown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Sandtown is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandtown
  • Sharp
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sharp is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp
  • Sulphur Rock
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Sulphur Rock is located in Independence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Rock
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 458 people

How Far From Moorefield to ...

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 town such as Moorefield to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Batesville, which is the Seat of Independence County, lies just to the West.
  • Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Moorefield 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 825 miles [1,327.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 47 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,632 miles [10,673.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,362 miles [11,848 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,239 miles [8,431.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Moorefield) 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 Moorefield 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 Moorefield 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 Moorefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7675, Longitude: -91.5714       In this case, the coordinates for Moorefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.807 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.218 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.875 degrees.