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 Smith Corner:
34.775375, -90.908449
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 Smith Corner
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 Lee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Smith Corner.
Within Arkansas, the name Smith Corner is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Kern County
This Smith Corner is located in Kern County and lies 1,597 miles [2,570.1 km]<1> to the west of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kern County community of Smith Corner.
Connecticut
New London County
This Smith Corner is located in New London County and lies 1,119 miles [1,800.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Smith Corner.
New Brunswick
This Smith Corner lies 1,515 miles [2,438.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
New Hampshire
Rockingham County
This Smith Corner is located in Rockingham County and lies 1,204 miles [1,937.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Smith Corner.
New York
Albany County
This Smith Corner is located in Albany County and lies 1,047 miles [1,685 km]<1> to the northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Smith Corner.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Smith Corner.
Pennsylvania
Blair County
This Smith Corner is located in Blair County and lies 780 miles [1,255.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blair County community of Smith Corner.
Vermont
Caledonia County
This Smith Corner is located in Caledonia County and lies 1,191 miles [1,916.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Smith Corner that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caledonia County community of Smith Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Smith 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.
Cypress Corner (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
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 Smith Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Smith Corner and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Smith Corner 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 816 miles [1,313.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,656 miles [10,711.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,381 miles [11,878.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,257 miles [8,460.3 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Smith Corner) 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 Smith Corner 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 Smith Corner 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 Smith Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7754, Longitude: -90.9084 In this case, the coordinates for Smith Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.307 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.505 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.766 degrees.