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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Batesville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Batesville and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Batesville:
    • 37.836028, -95.871165
    • 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 Batesville
  • 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 Woodson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Woodson County
    • Since Batesville is near Greenwood County and also Wilson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Greenwood County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wilson County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Batesville

Communities Also Named Batesville ...

We found fifteen communities that are also named Batesville.

Within Kansas, the name Batesville is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Barbour County
      • This Batesville is located in Barbour County and lies 719 miles [1,157.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barbour County community of Batesville.
    • Arkansas
      • Independence County
      • This Batesville is located in Independence County and lies 274 miles [441 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Independence County community of Batesville.
    • Georgia
      • Cherokee County
      • This Batesville is located in Cherokee County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Batesville.
      • Habersham County
      • This Batesville is located in Habersham County and lies 714 miles [1,149.1 km] to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Habersham County community of Batesville.
    • Indiana
      • Ripley County
      • This Batesville is located in Ripley County and lies 583 miles [938.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ripley County community of Batesville.
    • Maine
      • Aroostook County
      • This Batesville is located in Aroostook County and lies 1,514 miles [2,436.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Batesville.
    • Mississippi
      • Panola County
      • This Batesville is located in Panola County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Panola County community of Batesville.
    • Missouri
      • Butler County
      • This Batesville is located in Butler County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Batesville.
    • New Jersey
      • Camden County
      • 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 New Jersey community of Batesville [Camden County].
    • Ohio
      • Noble County
      • This Batesville is located in Noble County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Noble County community of Batesville.
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • This Batesville is located in Greenville County and lies 785 miles [1,263.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Batesville.
    • Texas
      • Red River County
      • This Batesville is located in Red River County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the south of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Red River County community of Batesville.
      • Zavala County
      • This Batesville is located in Zavala County and lies 650 miles [1,046.1 km] to the south southwest of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Zavala County community of Batesville.
    • Utah
      • Tooele 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 Utah community of Batesville [Tooele County].
    • Virginia
      • Albemarle County
      • This Batesville is located in Albemarle County and lies 932 miles [1,499.9 km]<1> to the east of the Batesville that is located in Woodson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Batesville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Batesville ...

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.

How Far From Batesville to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Batesville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Batesville and extending to:

  • Yates Center, which is the Seat of Woodson County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Topeka, which is the State Capital of Kansas, lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Batesville to Topeka, with an average speed<4>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 1,020 miles [1,641.5 km] to the east (E). 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 6,683 miles [10,755.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,428 miles [11,954.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,317 miles [8,556.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Batesville) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Batesville 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>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 Batesville, 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 Batesville 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 Batesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8360, Longitude: -95.8712       In this case, the coordinates for Batesville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.829 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.995 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.522 degrees.