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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 Cobb:
36.917553, -90.213437
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.
We found seventeen communities that share the name Cobb.
There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Cobb.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Missouri ...
Saint Clair County
This Cobb is located in Saint Clair County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Clair County community of Cobb.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Shelby 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 Alabama community of Cobb [Shelby County].
California
Lake County
This Cobb is located in Lake County and lies 1,767 miles [2,843.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Cobb.
Georgia
Sumter County
This Cobb is located in Sumter County and lies 492 miles [791.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumter County community of Cobb.
Idaho
Washington 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 Idaho community of Cobb [Washington County].
Indiana
Vigo County
This Cobb is located in Vigo County and lies 245 miles [394.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vigo County community of Cobb.
Kentucky
Caldwell County
This Cobb is located in Caldwell County and lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<1> to the east of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Cobb.
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Cobb is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 330 miles [531.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Cobb.
Montana
Ravalli County
This Cobb is located in Ravalli County and lies 1,386 miles [2,230.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ravalli County community of Cobb.
Nebraska
Lancaster 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 Nebraska community of Cobb [Lancaster County].
New York
Suffolk County
This Cobb is located in Suffolk County and lies 996 miles [1,602.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Cobb.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Cobb lies 1,974 miles [3,176.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
Oklahoma
Bryan County
This Cobb is located in Bryan County and lies 399 miles [642.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bryan County community of Cobb.
Oregon
Umatilla County
This Cobb is located in Umatilla County and lies 1,576 miles [2,536.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Umatilla County community of Cobb.
Texas
Kaufman County
This Cobb is located in Kaufman County and lies 442 miles [711.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kaufman County community of Cobb.
West Virginia
Greenbrier County
This Cobb is located in Greenbrier County and lies 533 miles [857.8 km]<1> to the east of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenbrier County community of Cobb.
Wisconsin
Iowa County
This Cobb is located in Iowa County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km]<1> to the north of the Cobb that is located in Stoddard County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iowa County community of Cobb.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cobb ...
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.
Dale (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Cobb to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cobb and extending to:
Bloomfield, which is the Seat of Stoddard County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Cobb to Bloomfield, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 730 miles [1,174.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,522 miles [10,496.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,252 miles [11,671 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,130 miles [8,255.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cobb) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cobb. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9176, Longitude: -90.2134 In this case, the coordinates for Cobb have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Cobb 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Cobb to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.003 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.441 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.033 degrees.