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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 Goodman, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Goodman and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Goodman:
    • 36.738812, -94.408908
    • 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 Goodman
  • 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 McDonald County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for McDonald County
    • Since Goodman is near Newton County and also Ottawa County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Newton County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ottawa 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 Goodman

Communities Also Named Goodman ...

We found sixteen communities that are also named Goodman.

Within Missouri, the name Goodman is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Coffee County
      • This Goodman is located in Coffee County and lies 611 miles [983.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coffee County community of Goodman.
    • Arkansas
      • Saline County
      • This Goodman is located in Saline County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the southeast of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saline County community of Goodman.
    • Georgia
      • Irwin 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 Georgia community of Goodman [Irwin County].
      • Wilcox County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Goodman [Wilcox County].
    • Indiana
      • Grant 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 Indiana community of Goodman [Grant County].
    • Kansas
      • Johnson 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 Goodman [Johnson County].
    • Michigan
      • Huron 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 Michigan community of Goodman [Huron County].
      • Marquette County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Goodman [Marquette County].
    • Mississippi
      • Holmes County
      • This Goodman is located in Holmes County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of Goodman.
    • North Carolina
      • Anson 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 North Carolina community of Goodman [Anson County].
    • Ohio
      • Trumbull 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 Ohio community of Goodman [Trumbull County].
    • Tennessee
      • Scott 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 Tennessee community of Goodman [Scott County].
      • Shelby County
      • This Goodman is located in Shelby County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Goodman.
    • Texas
      • Bastrop 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 Texas community of Goodman [Bastrop County].
    • West Virginia
      • Mingo County
      • This Goodman is located in Mingo County and lies 668 miles [1,075 km]<1> to the east of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mingo County community of Goodman.
    • Wisconsin
      • Marinette County
      • This Goodman is located in Marinette County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Goodman that is located in McDonald County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marinette County community of Goodman.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Goodman ...

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.

  • Boulder City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Boulder City is located in Newton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder City
  • Christopher
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Christopher is located in Newton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher
  • Deep Ford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Deep Ford is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Ford
  • Erie
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Erie is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erie
  • Ginger Blue
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Ginger Blue is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ginger Blue
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people
  • Hart
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Hart is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
  • June
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • June is located in Newton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for June
  • May
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • May is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
  • Plainview
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Plainview is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
  • Splitlog
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Splitlog is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Splitlog
  • Sugar Beach
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Sugar Beach is located in McDonald County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Beach
  • Sweetwater
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Sweetwater is located in Newton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater

How Far From Goodman 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 town such as Goodman to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Pineville, which is the Seat of McDonald County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Goodman to Pineville, with an average speed<3> 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 176 miles [283.2 km] to the northeast (NE). 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 957 miles [1,540.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,688 miles [10,763.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,427 miles [11,952.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,310 miles [8,545.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Goodman) 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 Goodman 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 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.
<4>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 Goodman 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 Goodman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7388, Longitude: -94.4089       In this case, the coordinates for Goodman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.752 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.602 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.006 degrees.