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 Walnut Springs:
33.949282, -94.292425
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 Walnut Springs
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 Sevier County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Walnut Springs.
Within Arkansas, the name Walnut Springs is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Walnut Springs is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,053 miles [1,694.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Walnut Springs that is located in Sevier County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Walnut Springs.
Missouri
Marion County
Although located in Marion County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Walnut Springs.
Texas
Bosque County
This Walnut Springs is located in Bosque County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Walnut Springs that is located in Sevier County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bosque County community of Walnut Springs.
Ellis County
This Walnut Springs is located in Ellis County and lies 163 miles [262.3 km] to the southwest of the Walnut Springs that is located in Sevier County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ellis County community of Walnut Springs.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Walnut Springs ...
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 Walnut Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Walnut Springs and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Walnut Springs to Little Rock, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,015 miles [1,633.5 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,829 miles [10,990.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,560 miles [12,166.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,437 miles [8,750 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Walnut Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Walnut Springs 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 Walnut Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9493, Longitude: -94.2924 In this case, the coordinates for Walnut Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.419 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.853 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.391 degrees.