It is located just to the north of Westerein [nl] and to the west of Wjelsryp, which it is administratively a part of.

At times, the residences just to the north of the N384, a trunk road, are sometimes erroneously considered to be part of the hamlet.

't Heechhout originated on the west side of the bridge over the canal.

This West Frisian name is the official name of the hamlet; the former municipality of Littenseradiel, which became part of the municipality of Waadhoeke in 2018, declared in 1993 that it would render all West Frisian town names official, as opposed to the Dutch variants.

[4] Sometimes the name of the hamlet is spelled as Het Heechhout, which is actually a mixture of Frisian and Dutch (a frisism).