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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Pea Ridge:
35.958035, -76.47897
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.
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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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 21 communities that are also named Pea Ridge.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Pea Ridge.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Polk County
This Pea Ridge is located in Polk County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Pea Ridge.
Yadkin County
This Pea Ridge is located in Yadkin County and lies 245 miles [394.3 km]<1> to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yadkin County community of Pea Ridge.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
DeKalb 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 Pea Ridge [DeKalb County].
Escambia County
This Pea Ridge is located in Escambia County and lies 696 miles [1,120.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Escambia County community of Pea Ridge.
Fayette County
This Pea Ridge is located in Fayette County and lies 646 miles [1,039.6 km] to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Pea Ridge.
Madison County
This Pea Ridge is located in Madison County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km] to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Pea Ridge.
Marion County
This Pea Ridge is located in Marion County and lies 656 miles [1,055.7 km] to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Pea Ridge.
Shelby County
This Pea Ridge is located in Shelby County and lies 624 miles [1,004.2 km] to the west southwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Pea Ridge.
Arkansas
Benton County
This Pea Ridge is located in Benton County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Pea Ridge.
Desha County
This Pea Ridge is located in Desha County and lies 851 miles [1,369.6 km] to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Desha County community of Pea Ridge.
Kentucky
Estill County
This Pea Ridge is located in Estill County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Estill County community of Pea Ridge.
Fleming County
This Pea Ridge is located in Fleming County and lies 427 miles [687.2 km] to the west northwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fleming County community of Pea Ridge.
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 Kentucky community of Pea Ridge [Scott County].
Todd 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 Kentucky community of Pea Ridge [Todd County].
Maine
Penobscot County
This Pea Ridge is located in Penobscot County and lies 774 miles [1,245.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Penobscot County community of Pea Ridge.
Mississippi
Kemper 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 Mississippi community of Pea Ridge [Kemper County].
Missouri
Washington County
This Pea Ridge is located in Washington County and lies 815 miles [1,311.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Pea Ridge.
Tennessee
Clay County
This Pea Ridge is located in Clay County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Pea Ridge.
DeKalb 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 Pea Ridge [DeKalb County].
Lawrence County
This Pea Ridge is located in Lawrence County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km] to the west of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Pea Ridge.
West Virginia
Cabell County
This Pea Ridge is located in Cabell County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pea Ridge that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cabell County community of Pea Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pea Ridge ...
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 Pea Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pea Ridge and extending to:
Plymouth, which is the Seat of Washington County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Pea Ridge to Plymouth, 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 five to six hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 121 miles [194.7 km] to the west (W). 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 205 miles [329.9 km] to the north (N). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,998 miles [9,652.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,688 miles [10,763.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,571 miles [7,356.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pea Ridge) 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 Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9580, Longitude: -76.4790
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.725 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.804 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.584 degrees.