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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 Stapleton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stapleton 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 Stapleton:
    • 37.664033, -77.419149
    • 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 Stapleton
  • 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 Hanover County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hanover County
    • Since Stapleton is near Henrico County and also Richmond City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Henrico County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond City
  • 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 Stapleton

Communities Also Named Stapleton ...

We found nine communities that are also named Stapleton.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Stapleton.

Beyond Virginia, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Amherst County
      • This Stapleton is located in Amherst County and lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the west of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Amherst County community of Stapleton.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Baldwin County
      • This Stapleton is located in Baldwin County and lies 760 miles [1,223.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baldwin County community of Stapleton.
    • Colorado
      • Montezuma County
      • This Stapleton is located in Montezuma County and lies 1,687 miles [2,715 km]<1> to the west of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montezuma County community of Stapleton.
    • Georgia
      • Jefferson County
      • This Stapleton is located in Jefferson County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Stapleton.
      • Johnson 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 Georgia community of Stapleton [Johnson County].
    • Indiana
      • Dubois 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 Indiana community of Stapleton [Dubois County].
    • Nebraska
      • Logan County
      • This Stapleton is located in Logan County and lies 1,253 miles [2,016.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of Stapleton.
    • New York
      • Richmond County
      • This Stapleton is located in Richmond County and lies 271 miles [436.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Stapleton.
    • Oregon
      • Polk County
      • This Stapleton is located in Polk County and lies 2,395 miles [3,854.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Stapleton that is located in Hanover County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Stapleton.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Stapleton ...

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.

  • Ashcake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Ashcake is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcake
  • Chickahominy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Chickahominy is located in Henrico County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chickahominy
  • French Hay
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • French Hay is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Hay
  • Georgetown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Georgetown is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
  • Greenwood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Greenwood is located in Henrico County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
  • Holly Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Holly Ridge is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Ridge
  • Kings Charter
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Kings Charter is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Charter
  • Kingswood Court
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Kingswood Court is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingswood Court
  • Lincoln Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Lincoln Park is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
  • Longdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Longdale is located in Henrico County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longdale
  • Mimosa Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Mimosa Hills is located in Hanover County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mimosa Hills
  • Patrick Henry Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Poindexters
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Poindexters is located in Hanover County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poindexters
    • Randolph Ridge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Randolph Ridge is located in Henrico County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Ridge
    • Robin Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Robin Ridge is located in Hanover County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin Ridge
    • Twin Oaks
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Twin Oaks is located in Hanover County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Oaks
    • Yellow Tavern
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Yellow Tavern is located in Henrico County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Tavern

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

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

  • Hanover, which is the Seat of Hanover County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies just to the south (S).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 87 miles [140 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Stapleton to White House, with an average speed<3>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 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,966 miles [9,601.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,667 miles [10,729.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,545 miles [7,314.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Stapleton) 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 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 Stapleton 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 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.
<4>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 Stapleton 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 Stapleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6640, Longitude: -77.4191       In this case, the coordinates for Stapleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.182 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.583 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.335 degrees.