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As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Little Warrior, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Warrior and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Little Warrior:
    • 33.907670, -86.597937
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Little Warrior
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Little Warrior ...

We found one communities that share the name Little Warrior.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Little Warrior.

Beyond Alabama.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Jefferson 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 Alabama community of Little Warrior [Jefferson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Warrior ...

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.

  • Allgood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Allgood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allgood
    • Allgood is located in Blount County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 638 people
  • Blow Gourd
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blow Gourd have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blow Gourd
    • Blow Gourd is located in Blount County
  • Cedar Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Springs
    • Cedar Springs is located in Blount County
  • Graystone
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Graystone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graystone
    • Graystone is located in Blount County
  • High Rock
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for High Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Rock
    • High Rock is located in Blount County
  • Inland Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inland Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inland Junction
    • Inland Junction is located in Blount County
  • Little Shenandoah
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Shenandoah have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shenandoah
    • Little Shenandoah is located in Blount County
  • Locust Fork
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Locust Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Fork
    • Locust Fork is located in Blount County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,178 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Locust Fork <3>
  • Nectar
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nectar have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nectar
    • Nectar is located in Blount County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 344 people
  • Selfville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Selfville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selfville
    • Selfville is located in Blount County
  • Sugar Creek
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sugar Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Creek
    • Sugar Creek is located in Blount County

How Far From Little Warrior 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 community such as Little Warrior to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Little Warrior and extending to:

  • Oneonta, which is the Seat of Blount County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 107 miles [172.2 km]<4> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Little Warrior to Montgomery, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 632 miles [1,017.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,524 miles [10,499.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,234 miles [11,642 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,110 miles [8,223.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Little Warrior. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Blount County: www.co.blount.al.us/

The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/

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 Little Warrior 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Little Warrior) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Warrior. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9077, Longitude: -86.5979       In this case, the coordinates for Little Warrior have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Little Warrior to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.576 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.226 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.13 degrees.









 

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