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 Gentryville:
36.863907, -92.360658
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 Gentryville
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 Douglas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Gentryville.
There is one other community in Missouri that is also named Gentryville.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Gentryville in the United States.
Communities Located In Missouri ...
Gentry County
This Gentryville is located in Gentry County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Gentryville that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gentry County community of Gentryville.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Spencer County
This Gentryville is located in Spencer County and lies 304 miles [489.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Gentryville that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spencer County community of Gentryville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Gentryville ...
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 Gentryville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Gentryville and extending to:
Ava, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Gentryville to Ava, with an average speed<3> 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 five to six hours.
Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 118 miles [189.9 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 845 miles [1,359.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 48 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,606 miles [10,631.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,341 miles [11,814.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,221 miles [8,402.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Gentryville) 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.
<3>
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 Gentryville 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 Gentryville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8639, Longitude: -92.3607
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.399 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.05 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.027 degrees.