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 Mound Grove:
34.082050, -95.087173
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 Mound Grove
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 McCurtain County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Mound Grove.
Within Oklahoma, the name Mound Grove is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, there is another community also named Mound Grove in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Volusia County
This Mound Grove is located in Volusia County and lies 880 miles [1,416.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Mound Grove that is located in McCurtain County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Volusia County community of Mound Grove.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mound Grove ...
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 Mound Grove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mound Grove and extending to:
Idabel, which is the Seat of McCurtain County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Mound Grove to Idabel, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 167 miles [268.8 km] to the northwest (NW). 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 1,053 miles [1,694.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 42 days and walking would take 60 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,852 miles [11,027.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,585 miles [12,206.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,464 miles [8,793.5 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mound Grove) 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.
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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 Mound Grove 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 Mound Grove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0821, Longitude: -95.0872 In this case, the coordinates for Mound Grove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.956 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.498 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.728 degrees.