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 Temple:
33.582345, -93.990744
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.
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 Little River County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eighteen communities that are also named Temple.
Within Arkansas, the name Temple is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of eighteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Pickens 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 Alabama community of Temple [Pickens County].
Florida
Bradford 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 Florida community of Temple [Bradford County].
Georgia
Carroll County
This Temple is located in Carroll County and lies 515 miles [828.8 km]<2> to the east of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Temple.
Indiana
Crawford County
This Temple is located in Crawford County and lies 535 miles [861 km]<2> to the northeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Temple.
Louisiana
Vernon Parish
This Temple is located in Vernon Parish and lies 170 miles [273.6 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vernon Parish community of Temple.
Maine
Franklin County
This Temple is located in Franklin County and lies 1,477 miles [2,377 km]<2> to the northeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Temple.
Michigan
Clare County
This Temple is located in Clare County and lies 866 miles [1,393.7 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clare County community of Temple.
Mississippi
Lauderdale 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 Mississippi community of Temple [Lauderdale County].
Missouri
Vernon County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Temple [Vernon County].
New Brunswick
This Temple lies 1,637 miles [2,634.5 km]<2> to the northeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
New Hampshire
Hillsborough County
This Temple is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,354 miles [2,179.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Temple.
New Mexico
Colfax County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Colfax County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colfax County community of Temple.
North Carolina
Wake 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 North Carolina community of Temple [Wake County].
North Dakota
Williams County
This Temple is located in Williams County and lies 1,124 miles [1,808.9 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williams County community of Temple.
Ohio
Lake 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 Ohio community of Temple [Lake County].
Oklahoma
Cotton County
This Temple is located in Cotton County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cotton County community of Temple.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia 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 Pennsylvania community of Temple [Philadelphia County].
Texas
Bell County
This Temple is located in Bell County and lies 261 miles [420 km]<2> to the southwest of the Temple that is located in Little River County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of Temple.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Temple ...
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.
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 Temple to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Temple and extending to:
Ashdown, which is the Seat of Little River County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Temple to Ashdown, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 127 miles [204.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,011 miles [1,627 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 40 days and walking would take 58 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,836 miles [11,001.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,565 miles [12,174.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,442 miles [8,758.1 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 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 Temple 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>
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- Temple) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Temple, 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 Temple 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 Temple. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5823, Longitude: -93.9907 In this case, the coordinates for Temple have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.183 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.531 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.31 degrees.