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 Bentonville:
35.349002, -78.297180
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 Bentonville
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 Johnston County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Bentonville.
Within North Carolina, the name Bentonville is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Benton County
This Bentonville is located in Benton County and lies 893 miles [1,437.1 km]<1> to the west of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Bentonville.
Indiana
Fayette County
This Bentonville is located in Fayette County and lies 484 miles [778.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Bentonville.
Iowa
Wayne 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 Iowa community of Bentonville [Wayne County].
Missouri
Benton County
This Bentonville is located in Benton County and lies 858 miles [1,380.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Bentonville.
Ohio
Adams County
This Bentonville is located in Adams County and lies 375 miles [603.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Bentonville.
Texas
Jim Wells County
This Bentonville is located in Jim Wells County and lies 1,266 miles [2,037.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jim Wells County community of Bentonville.
Virginia
Warren County
This Bentonville is located in Warren County and lies 240 miles [386.2 km]<1> to the north of the Bentonville that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Bentonville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bentonville ...
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, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bentonville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bentonville and extending to:
Smithfield, which is the Seat of Johnston County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Bentonville to Smithfield, with an average speed<4> 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.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 35 miles [56.3 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 254 miles [408.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,104 miles [9,823.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,796 miles [10,937.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,679 miles [7,530.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bentonville) 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 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 Bentonville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Bentonville 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 Bentonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3490, Longitude: -78.2972 In this case, the coordinates for Bentonville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.767 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.904 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.484 degrees.