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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 Droop Mountain, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Droop Mountain 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 Droop Mountain:
    • 38.025120, -80.256461
    • 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 Droop Mountain
  • 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 Greenbrier County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Greenbrier County
    • Since Droop Mountain is near Pocahontas County and also Bath County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pocahontas County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bath 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 Droop Mountain

Communities Also Named Droop Mountain ...

We found one communities that are also named Droop Mountain.

There is one other community in West Virginia that is also named Droop Mountain.

Beyond West Virginia.

  • Communities Located In West Virginia ...
    • Pocahontas County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Droop Mountain [Pocahontas County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Droop Mountain ...

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.

  • Beard
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Beard is located in Pocahontas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beard
  • Droop
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Droop is located in Pocahontas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Droop
  • Falling Spring
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Falling Spring is located in Greenbrier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
  • Golden
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Golden is located in Greenbrier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
  • Julia
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Julia is located in Greenbrier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julia
  • Locust
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Locust is located in Pocahontas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust
  • Mill Run ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Mill Run is located in Pocahontas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Run
  • Oscar
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Oscar is located in Greenbrier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscar
  • Spice
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Spice is located in Pocahontas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spice
  • Sue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Sue is located in Greenbrier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sue

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Droop Mountain and extending to:

  • Lewisburg, which is the Seat of Greenbrier County, lies 18 miles [29 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Droop Mountain to Lewisburg, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over 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.
  • Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 77 miles [123.9 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 184 miles [296.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,071 miles [9,770.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,780 miles [10,911.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,656 miles [7,493.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Droop Mountain 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.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Droop Mountain) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Droop Mountain 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 Droop Mountain. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0251, Longitude: -80.2565       In this case, the coordinates for Droop Mountain have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.84 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.528 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.383 degrees.