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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 Petit Jean, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Petit Jean 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 Petit Jean:
- 35.090627, -93.180845
- 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 Petit Jean
- 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 Yell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Yell County
- Since Petit Jean is near Perry County and also Pope County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Perry County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pope 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 Petit Jean
Communities Also Named Petit Jean ...
We found one communities that are also named Petit Jean.
There is one other community in Arkansas that is also named Petit Jean.
Beyond Arkansas.
- Communities Located In Arkansas ...
- Pope County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Petit Jean [Pope County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Petit Jean ...
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.
- Alpha
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Alpha is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
- Centerville
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Cotton Town
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Cotton Town is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Town
- Fowler
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Fowler is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler
- Holla Bend
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Lakeview
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Lakeview is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Lone Pine
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Lone Pine is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
- Mickles
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Mickles is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mickles
- Oak Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Oak Grove is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
- Plainview
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pontoon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Pontoon is located in Conway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontoon
- Prosperity
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Prosperity is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Ranger
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Ranger is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranger
- Rocky Crossing
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Rocky Crossing is located in Yell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
How Far From Petit Jean 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 community such as Petit Jean to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Petit Jean and extending to:
- Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<3> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Petit Jean to Little Rock, with an average speed<4> 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 926 miles [1,490.3 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 37 days and walking would take 53 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,728 miles [10,827.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,459 miles [12,004.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,337 miles [8,589.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Petit Jean 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Petit Jean) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Petit Jean 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 Petit Jean. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0906, Longitude: -93.1808 In this case, the coordinates for Petit Jean have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.80 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.281 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.717 degrees. |
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