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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 Neelyville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Neelyville 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 Neelyville:
- 36.556328, -90.513647
- 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 Neelyville
- 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 Butler County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Butler County
- Since Neelyville is near Clay County and also Ripley County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Clay County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ripley 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 Neelyville
Communities Also Named Neelyville ...
We found one communities that are also named Neelyville.
Within Missouri, the name Neelyville is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Neelyville in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Morgan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Neelyville [Morgan County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Neelyville ...
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.
- Corning
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Fairdealing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Fairdealing is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairdealing
- Flatwoods
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Flatwoods is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatwoods
- Glenn
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Glenn is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn
- Kingbee ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Kingbee is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingbee
- Lone Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Lone Hill is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Hill
- Martinsburg ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Martinsburg is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsburg
- Parks
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Parks is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parks
- Success
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Success is located in Clay County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
- Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
- Torch
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Torch is located in Ripley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torch
- Twin Oaks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Twin Oaks is located in Clay County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Oaks
- Walnut Grove
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Walnut Grove is located in Clay County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
How Far From Neelyville to ...
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 city such as Neelyville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Neelyville and extending to:
- Poplar Bluff, which is the Seat of Butler County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Neelyville to Poplar Bluff, 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.
- Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 166 miles [267.2 km] to the north northwest (NNW). 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 752 miles [1,210.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 30 days and walking would take 43 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,552 miles [10,544.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,281 miles [11,717.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,159 miles [8,302.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Neelyville 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Neelyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Neelyville 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 Neelyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5563, Longitude: -90.5136 In this case, the coordinates for Neelyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.176 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.593 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.244 degrees. |
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