Little Falls
Little Falls is a waterfall in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 270 m. Devies Mountain stands 839 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Tom's Run Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Old Route 7 Byway passes 5.7 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Wikidata Q6649960, matched on coordinates and name (475 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 9 m
- Width
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 5.7 mi off the Old Route 7 Byway
- 13.9 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 18.5 mi off the Cheat River Byway
- 23.1 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Point Lookout · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dorsey's Knob Park: 3.9 mi
- White Park: 4.6 mi
- Jack Roberts Park: 4.9 mi
- King Street Park: 5.1 mi
- South Park Historic District: 5.2 mi
- Price Hill: 3.2 mi
- Dorsey Knob: 3.8 mi
- Grapevine Hill: 4.8 mi
- Kincaid Knob: 4.9 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.1 mi
- Monongalia County War Memorial: 5.2 mi
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park: 7.4 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Elkins Coal and Coke Company Historic District: 10.2 mi
- Mon Valley Railroad Historical Society: 4.2 mi
- Watts Museum: 6.7 mi
- Marion County Historical Society: 8.9 mi
- Telephone Museum: 9.0 mi
- Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center: 10.0 mi
- Tom's Run Nature Preserve: 0.1 mi
- Little Indian Creek Wildlife Management Area: 4.5 mi
- LIttle Indian Creek Wildlife Managment ARea: 4.8 mi
- Core Arboretum: 6.5 mi
- Falling Run Greenspace: 6.7 mi
- Climbing: 10.0 mi
- Climbing and Rappelling: 10.3 mi
- Riverside Spot: 10.8 mi
- Sophia's Grave: 15.6 mi
- Don Knotts: 5.9 mi
- From The Mountain: 7.1 mi
- Albert Gallatin Statue: 16.0 mi
- The Cliff: 17.1 mi
- White Rocks: 24.6 mi
- Matador Falls: 13.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Little Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devies Mountain | NE 48° | 839 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Phoebe | ESE 109° | 715 m | 13.6 mi |
| Kelley Knob | ENE 78° | 712 m | 23.9 mi |
| Reed Hill | ENE 64° | 675 m | 10.7 mi |
| Bald Knob | ESE 115° | 656 m | 6.1 mi |
| Cannon Hill | SE 128° | 621 m | 22.3 mi |
| Kincaid Knob | SSE 150° | 579 m | 4.9 mi |
| Copeland Knob | SSW 204° | 541 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:11 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:17 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Morgantown L&D, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 169 | 192 | 199 | 161 | 129 | 73.3 | 53.3 | 43.6 | 32.5 | 33.4 | 70.0 | 144 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Deckers Creek AT Morgantown, WV, 6 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/8691958029
Day trips start here
- Morgantown · 6 mi
- Fairmont · 9 mi
- Grafton · 15 mi
- Kingwood · 18 mi
- Shinnston · 19 mi
- Bridgeport · 22 mi
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