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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 Falls, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Falls 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 Falls:
    • 47.830163, -117.913019
    • 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 Falls
  • 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 Lincoln County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
    • Since Little Falls is near Stevens County and also Spokane County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Stevens County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spokane 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 Falls

Communities Also Named Little Falls ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Little Falls.

There is one other community in Washington that is also named Little Falls.

Beyond Washington, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Washington ...
    • Lewis County
      • This community is historic<1> and although located in Lewis County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Little Falls.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maine
      • Cumberland County
      • This Little Falls is located in Cumberland County and lies 2,267 miles [3,648.4 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Little Falls.
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon 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 Michigan community of Little Falls [Ontonagon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Morrison County
      • This Little Falls is located in Morrison County and lies 1,114 miles [1,792.8 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morrison County community of Little Falls.
    • New Jersey
      • Passaic County
      • This Little Falls is located in Passaic County and lies 2,180 miles [3,508.4 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Passaic County community of Little Falls.
    • New York
      • Herkimer County
      • This Little Falls is located in Herkimer County and lies 2,084 miles [3,353.9 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Herkimer County community of Little Falls.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • We haven't found the location of this community yet.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Little Falls.
    • Virginia
      • Stafford County
      • This Little Falls is located in Stafford County and lies 2,119 miles [3,410.2 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Little Falls.
    • West Virginia
      • Monongalia County
      • This Little Falls is located in Monongalia County and lies 1,955 miles [3,146.3 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of Little Falls.
    • Wisconsin
      • Polk County
      • This Little Falls is located in Polk County and lies 1,217 miles [1,958.6 km]<2> to the east of the Little Falls that is located in Lincoln County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Little Falls.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Falls ...

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.

  • Airway Heights
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Deep Creek
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Deep Creek is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
  • Deer Meadows
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Deer Meadows is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Meadows
  • Deer Trail
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Deer Trail is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Trail
  • Enterprise
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Enterprise is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
  • Ford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hazard
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Hazard is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazard
  • Long Lake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Long Lake is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
  • Lyons
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Lyons is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons
  • Miles
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Miles is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles
  • Seven Bays
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Seven Bays is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Bays
  • Seven Mile
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Seven Mile is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Mile
  • Tumtum
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Tumtum is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumtum

How Far From Little Falls to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers 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 Falls to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Davenport, which is the Seat of Lincoln County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Little Falls to Davenport, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
  • Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 239 miles [384.6 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,115 miles [3,403.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 83 days and walking would take 121 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,685 miles [10,758.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,451 miles [11,991.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,533 miles [8,904.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Falls, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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- Little Falls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Little Falls 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Falls 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 Falls. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8302, Longitude: -117.9130       In this case, the coordinates for Little Falls have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 337.25 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 338.246 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.858 degrees.