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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Bell City:
37.022306, -89.818969
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.
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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 Stoddard County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Bell City.
Within Missouri, the name Bell City is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Clay County
This Bell City is located in Clay County and lies 53 miles [85.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bell City that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Bell City.
Kansas
Lane 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 Kansas community of Bell City [Lane County].
Kentucky
Elliott County
This Bell City is located in Elliott County and lies 373 miles [600.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bell City that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elliott County community of Bell City.
Graves County
This Bell City is located in Graves County and lies 80 miles [128.7 km] to the east southeast of the Bell City that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Graves County community of Bell City.
Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish
This Bell City is located in Calcasieu Parish and lies 510 miles [820.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bell City that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calcasieu Parish community of Bell City.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Bell City.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bell City ...
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, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Bell City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bell City and extending to:
Bloomfield, which is the Seat of Stoddard County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Bell City to Bloomfield, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 167 miles [268.8 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 707 miles [1,137.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,502 miles [10,464 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,231 miles [11,637.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,108 miles [8,220.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bell City) 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 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 Bell City 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>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Bell City 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 Bell City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0223, Longitude: -89.8190
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.754 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.168 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.832 degrees.