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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 Little Sugar Loaf, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Sugar Loaf 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 Little Sugar Loaf:
- 43.095993, -116.704569
- 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 Little Sugar Loaf
- 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 Owyhee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Owyhee County
- Since Little Sugar Loaf is near Canyon County and also Malheur County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Canyon County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Malheur 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 Little Sugar Loaf
Communities Also Named Little Sugar Loaf ...
We found one communities that are also named Little Sugar Loaf.
Within Idaho, the name Little Sugar Loaf is unique.
Beyond Idaho, there is another community also named Little Sugar Loaf in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Bladen 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 North Carolina community of Little Sugar Loaf [Bladen County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Sugar Loaf ...
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.
- Democrat
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Democrat is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Democrat
- Dewey
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Dewey is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
- Empire City ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Empire City is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
- Murphy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Silver City
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Sinker ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Sinker is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinker
- Slacks Corner
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Slacks Corner is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slacks Corner
- Telegraph Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Telegraph Hill is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telegraph Hill
How Far From Little Sugar Loaf 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 community such as Little Sugar Loaf to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Little Sugar Loaf and extending to:
- Murphy, which is the Seat of Owyhee County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Little Sugar Loaf to Murphy, 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.
- Boise, which is the State Capital of Idaho, lies 43 miles [69.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). 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 about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,067 miles [3,326.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 81 days and walking would take 118 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,962 miles [11,204.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,730 miles [12,440.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,766 miles [9,279.5 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Sugar Loaf 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Little Sugar Loaf) 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 Little Sugar Loaf 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 Little Sugar Loaf. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0960, Longitude: -116.7046 In this case, the coordinates for Little Sugar Loaf have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 335.975 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 336.437 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.49 degrees. |
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