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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 Farms, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Farms 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 Farms:
    • 29.964649, -90.220910
    • 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 Farms
  • 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 parish-by-parish basis. We have selected Jefferson Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson Parish
    • Since Little Farms is near Saint Charles Parish and also Orleans Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Charles Parish
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Orleans Parish
  • 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 Farms

Communities Also Named Little Farms ...

We found two communities that are also named Little Farms.

Within Louisiana, the name Little Farms is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ohio
      • Franklin 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 Ohio community of Little Farms [Franklin County].
      • Summit 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 Ohio community of Little Farms [Summit County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Farms ...

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.

  • Bucktown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bucktown is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown
  • Garden District
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Garden District is located in Orleans Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden District
  • Greenville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Greenville is located in Orleans Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
  • Indian Beach
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Indian Beach is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Beach
  • Kellogg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Kellogg is located in Saint Charles Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellogg
  • Kennedy Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Kennedy Heights is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy Heights
  • Lakeview
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Lakeview is located in Orleans Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Lone Star
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Lone Star is located in Saint Charles Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
  • Pecan Grove ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Pecan Grove is located in Saint Charles Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Grove
  • Pricetown ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Pricetown is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pricetown
  • Storyville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Storyville is located in Orleans Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storyville
  • Walkertown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Walkertown is located in Jefferson Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkertown
  • Walnut Street Ferry
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Walnut Street Ferry is located in Orleans Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Street Ferry

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<2> community of Little Farms once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Little Farms and extending to:

  • Gretna, which is the Seat of Jefferson Parish, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Little Farms to Gretna, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 65 miles [104.6 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 969 miles [1,559.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,866 miles [11,049.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,572 miles [12,186 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,449 miles [8,769.3 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Farms 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 parish. 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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Little Farms, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Farms) 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 Farms 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 Farms. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.9646, Longitude: -90.2209       In this case, the coordinates for Little Farms have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.414 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.821 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.275 degrees.