Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Sweet Home, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sweet Home and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Sweet Home
- 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 Sweet Home:
- 29.458011, -98.038895
- 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 Sweet Home
- 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 Guadalupe County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Guadalupe County
- Since Sweet Home is near Wilson County and also Bexar County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Wilson County
- eBird sighting report for Bexar 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Sweet Home ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Sweet Home.
There are two communities within Texas that are also named Sweet Home.
Beyond Texas, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Lavaca County
- This Sweet Home is located in Lavaca County and lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the east of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lavaca County community of Sweet Home.
- Lee County
- This Sweet Home is located in Lee County and lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Sweet Home.
- Lavaca County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Talladega County
- This Sweet Home is located in Talladega County and lies 767 miles [1,234.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talladega County community of Sweet Home.
- Arkansas
- Perry County
- This Sweet Home is located in Perry County and lies 492 miles [791.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perry County community of Sweet Home.
- Pulaski County
- This Sweet Home is located in Pulaski County and lies 495 miles [796.6 km] to the northeast of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pulaski County community of Sweet Home.
- Illinois
- Jo Daviess County
- This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sweet Home [Jo Daviess County].
- Indiana
- Saint Joseph County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sweet Home [Saint Joseph County].
- Kansas
- Smith County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sweet Home [Smith County].
- Louisiana
- Assumption Parish
- This Sweet Home is located in Assumption Parish and lies 421 miles [677.5 km]<1> to the east of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Assumption Parish community of Sweet Home.
- North Carolina
- Iredell County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sweet Home [Iredell County].
- Oregon
- Linn County
- This Sweet Home is located in Linn County and lies 1,696 miles [2,729.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Linn County community of Sweet Home.
- Tennessee
- Dickson County
- This Sweet Home is located in Dickson County and lies 776 miles [1,248.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sweet Home that is located in Guadalupe County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dickson County community of Sweet Home.
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sweet Home ...
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.
- Alum
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum
- Alum is located in Wilson County
- Carpenter
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest) - Dewville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewville
- Dewville is located in Gonzales County
- Friendly Corner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friendly Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendly Corner
- Friendly Corner is located in Bexar County
- Geronimo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo
- Geronimo is located in Guadalupe County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Geronimo <5>
- Jakes Colony
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jakes Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jakes Colony
- Jakes Colony is located in Guadalupe County
- Lone Oak
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
- Lone Oak is located in Bexar County
- Marion
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marion have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Marion is located in Guadalupe County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,281 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marion <5>
- Union
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast) - Zipp
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
How Far From Sweet Home 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 Sweet Home to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sweet Home and extending to:
- Seguin, which is the Seat of Guadalupe County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Sweet Home to Seguin, with an average speed<6> 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.
- Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 58 miles [93.3 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 over two days and walking would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,360 miles [2,188.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 54 days and walking would take 78 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,207 miles [11,598.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,935 miles [12,770.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,811 miles [9,351.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sweet Home. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Guadalupe County: www.co.guadalupe.tx.us/
The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sweet Home) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sweet Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.4580, Longitude: -98.0389 In this case, the coordinates for Sweet Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Sweet Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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 Sweet Home 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Sweet Home to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.285 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.474 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.508 degrees. |