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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 West Hampton:
37.255415, -79.996705
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Open the Heavens-Above website centered on West Hampton
Waymarking ...
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We found six communities that are also named West Hampton.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named West Hampton.
Beyond Virginia, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Hampton City
This West Hampton is located in Hampton City and lies 200 miles [321.9 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampton City community of West Hampton.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This West Hampton is located in Hillsborough County and lies 652 miles [1,049.3 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of West Hampton.
Georgia
Cobb County
This West Hampton is located in Cobb County and lies 346 miles [556.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of West Hampton.
Columbia County
This West Hampton is located in Columbia County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of West Hampton.
Henry County
This West Hampton is located in Henry County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of West Hampton.
Kansas
Mitchell 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 Kansas community of West Hampton [Mitchell County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near West Hampton ...
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.
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 West Hampton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in West Hampton and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from West Hampton to Richmond, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 196 miles [315.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,094 miles [9,807.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,799 miles [10,941.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,676 miles [7,525.3 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- West Hampton) 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 West Hampton 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 . 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 West Hampton 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 West Hampton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2554, Longitude: -79.9967 In this case, the coordinates for West Hampton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.705 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.259 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.53 degrees.