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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 Hope, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Hope 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 Hope:
    • 32.779575, -95.256890
    • 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 Hope
  • 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 Wood County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wood County
    • Since Little Hope is near Upshur County and also Franklin County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Upshur County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin 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 Hope

Communities Also Named Little Hope ...

We found six communities that are also named Little Hope.

Within Texas, the name Little Hope is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Bibb County
      • This Little Hope is located in Bibb County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<1> to the east of the Little Hope that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Little Hope.
    • Georgia
      • Seminole County
      • This Little Hope is located in Seminole County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the east of the Little Hope that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Seminole County community of Little Hope.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Erie County
      • This Little Hope is located in Erie County and lies 1,060 miles [1,705.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Little Hope that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Little Hope.
    • Tennessee
      • Rutherford County
      • This Little Hope is located in Rutherford County and lies 542 miles [872.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Little Hope that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Little Hope.
      • Wayne 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 Little Hope [Wayne County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Waupaca County
      • This Little Hope is located in Waupaca County and lies 862 miles [1,387.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Little Hope that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waupaca County community of Little Hope.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Hope ...

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.

  • Angler
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Angler is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angler
  • Cartwright
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cartwright is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartwright
  • Crow
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Crow is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
  • Hoard
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Hoard is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoard
  • Latch
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Latch is located in Upshur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latch
  • Oak Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Grove is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Pine Mills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Mills is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Mills
  • Piney Grove
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Piney Grove is located in Upshur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove
  • Quitman
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Rosewood
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Rosewood is located in Upshur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosewood
  • Shady Grove
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Shady Grove is located in Upshur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Stout
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Stout is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout

How Far From Little Hope to ...

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 Little Hope to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Little Hope and extending to:

  • Quitman, which is the Seat of Wood County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Little Hope to Quitman, 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.
  • Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 226 miles [363.7 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,101 miles [1,771.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 43 days and walking would take 63 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,926 miles [11,146.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,656 miles [12,321.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,533 miles [8,904.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Hope) 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 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 Hope 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 Little Hope 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 Hope. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7796, Longitude: -95.2569       In this case, the coordinates for Little Hope have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.921 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.29 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.975 degrees.