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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 Mooresville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mooresville 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 Mooresville:
    • 35.007866, -91.694858
    • 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 Mooresville
  • 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 Prairie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Prairie County
    • Since Mooresville is near White County and also Lonoke County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for White County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lonoke 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 Mooresville

Communities Also Named Mooresville ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Mooresville.

Within Arkansas, the name Mooresville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Limestone County
      • This Mooresville is located in Limestone County and lies 274 miles [441 km]<1> to the east of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Limestone County community of Mooresville.
    • Indiana
      • DeKalb 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 Mooresville [DeKalb County].
      • Morgan County
      • This Mooresville is located in Morgan County and lies 431 miles [693.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Mooresville.
    • Kentucky
      • Washington County
      • This Mooresville is located in Washington County and lies 405 miles [651.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Mooresville.
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis County
      • This Mooresville is located in Piscataquis County and lies 1,384 miles [2,227.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piscataquis County community of Mooresville.
    • Missouri
      • Livingston County
      • This Mooresville is located in Livingston County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Mooresville.
    • North Carolina
      • Iredell County
      • This Mooresville is located in Iredell County and lies 613 miles [986.5 km]<1> to the east of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Mooresville.
    • Ohio
      • Ross County
      • This Mooresville is located in Ross County and lies 570 miles [917.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ross County community of Mooresville.
    • Ontario
      • This Mooresville lies 788 miles [1,268.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Huntingdon County
      • This Mooresville is located in Huntingdon County and lies 842 miles [1,355.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Mooresville.
    • Tennessee
      • Marshall County
      • This Mooresville is located in Marshall County and lies 271 miles [436.1 km]<1> to the east of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Mooresville.
    • West Virginia
      • Monongalia County
      • This Mooresville is located in Monongalia County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Mooresville that is located in Prairie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of Mooresville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mooresville ...

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.

  • Butlerville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Butlerville is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butlerville
  • Crossroad
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Crossroad is located in Prairie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroad
  • Defiance ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Defiance is located in White County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Defiance
  • Edwards
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Edwards is located in Prairie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
  • Fourmile Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Fourmile Corner is located in Prairie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Corner
  • Hickory Plains
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hickory Plains is located in Prairie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Plains
  • Hicksville ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Hicksville is located in White County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicksville
  • Jasmine
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jasmine is located in White County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasmine
  • Waterproof
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Waterproof is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterproof

How Far From Mooresville to ...

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 Mooresville 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<3> community of Mooresville once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Mooresville and extending to:

  • Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could walk a straight line from Mooresville to Little Rock, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two 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 851 miles [1,369.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 34 days and walking would take 49 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,675 miles [10,742.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,402 miles [11,912.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,279 miles [8,495.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mooresville) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Mooresville 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>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 Mooresville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Mooresville 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 Mooresville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0079, Longitude: -91.6949       In this case, the coordinates for Mooresville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.829 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.142 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.069 degrees.