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 Whitetown:
34.629750, -93.745004
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 Whitetown
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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Whitetown.
Within Arkansas, the name Whitetown is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
North Carolina
Caswell County
This Whitetown is located in Caswell County and lies 812 miles [1,306.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Whitetown that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caswell County community of Whitetown.
South Carolina
McCormick County
This Whitetown is located in McCormick County and lies 660 miles [1,062.2 km]<1> to the east of the Whitetown that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCormick County community of Whitetown.
Virginia
Fauquier County
This Whitetown is located in Fauquier County and lies 923 miles [1,485.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Whitetown that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fauquier County community of Whitetown.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whitetown ...
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 Whitetown to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whitetown and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Whitetown 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 968 miles [1,557.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,773 miles [10,900.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,504 miles [12,076.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,382 miles [8,661.5 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- Whitetown) 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 Whitetown 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 Whitetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6298, Longitude: -93.7450
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.127 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.602 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.044 degrees.