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 Butterfield:
36.747812, -93.904788
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 Butterfield
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 Barry County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Butterfield.
Within Missouri, the name Butterfield is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Hot Spring County
This Butterfield is located in Hot Spring County and lies 171 miles [275.2 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hot Spring County community of Butterfield.
Illinois
DuPage 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 Illinois community of Butterfield [DuPage County].
Maine
Franklin 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 Maine community of Butterfield [Franklin County].
Maryland
Frederick County
This Butterfield is located in Frederick County and lies 920 miles [1,480.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Butterfield.
Michigan
Missaukee County
This Butterfield is located in Missaukee County and lies 699 miles [1,124.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Missaukee County community of Butterfield.
Minnesota
Watonwan County
This Butterfield is located in Watonwan County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the north of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Watonwan County community of Butterfield.
New York
Oneida 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 York community of Butterfield [Oneida County].
Oregon
Clatsop County
This Butterfield is located in Clatsop County and lies 1,669 miles [2,686 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clatsop County community of Butterfield.
Texas
El Paso County
This Butterfield is located in El Paso County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Butterfield.
Virginia
Stafford County
This Butterfield is located in Stafford County and lies 904 miles [1,454.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in Barry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Butterfield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Butterfield ...
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 village such as Butterfield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Butterfield and extending to:
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 157 miles [252.7 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Butterfield to Jefferson City, with an average speed<5>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 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 930 miles [1,496.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 53 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,670 miles [10,734.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,407 miles [11,920.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,289 miles [8,511.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Butterfield) 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 Butterfield 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 Butterfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Butterfield 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 Butterfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7478, Longitude: -93.9048
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.415 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.212 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.767 degrees.