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 Thomasville:
34.745931, -90.934005
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 Thomasville
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 fifteen communities that are also named Thomasville.
Within Arkansas, the name Thomasville is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Clarke County
This Thomasville is located in Clarke County and lies 268 miles [431.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Thomasville.
Colorado
Pitkin County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Thomasville [Pitkin County].
Georgia
Fulton County
This Thomasville is located in Fulton County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<1> to the east of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Thomasville.
Thomas County
This Thomasville is located in Thomas County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km] to the east southeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Thomas County community of Thomasville.
Illinois
Montgomery County
This Thomasville is located in Montgomery County and lies 335 miles [539.1 km]<1> to the north of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Thomasville.
Iowa
Clayton County
This Thomasville is located in Clayton County and lies 554 miles [891.6 km]<1> to the north of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Thomasville.
Kansas
Cowley County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Thomasville [Cowley County].
Mississippi
Rankin County
This Thomasville is located in Rankin County and lies 186 miles [299.3 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rankin County community of Thomasville.
Missouri
Oregon County
This Thomasville is located in Oregon County and lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oregon County community of Thomasville.
Montana
Gallatin County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Thomasville [Gallatin County].
New York
Clinton County
This Thomasville is located in Clinton County and lies 1,136 miles [1,828.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Thomasville.
North Carolina
Davidson County
This Thomasville is located in Davidson County and lies 616 miles [991.4 km]<1> to the east of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Thomasville.
Nova Scotia
This Thomasville lies 1,486 miles [2,391.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
Pennsylvania
York County
This Thomasville is located in York County and lies 850 miles [1,367.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Thomasville.
Tennessee
Cheatham County
This Thomasville is located in Cheatham County and lies 242 miles [389.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Thomasville that is located in Lee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cheatham County community of Thomasville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Thomasville ...
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 Thomasville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Thomasville and extending to:
Marianna, which is the Seat of Lee County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Thomasville to Marianna, 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 75 miles [120.7 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 818 miles [1,316.4 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,658 miles [10,715 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,383 miles [11,881.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,259 miles [8,463.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Thomasville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Thomasville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Thomasville 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.
<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 Thomasville 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 Thomasville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7459, Longitude: -90.9340 In this case, the coordinates for Thomasville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.321 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.517 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.783 degrees.