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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 Bellaire, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bellaire 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 Bellaire:
    • 32.487375, -93.673233
    • 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 Bellaire
  • 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 parish-by-parish basis. We have selected Bossier Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bossier Parish
    • Since Bellaire is near Caddo Parish and also De Soto Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caddo Parish
    • Open the eBird sighting report for De Soto Parish
  • 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 Bellaire

Communities Also Named Bellaire ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Bellaire.

Within Louisiana, the name Bellaire is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Chicot County
      • This Bellaire is located in Chicot County and lies 151 miles [243 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chicot County community of Bellaire.
    • California
      • Contra Costa 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 California community of Bellaire [Contra Costa County].
    • Kansas
      • Sedgwick County
      • This Bellaire is located in Sedgwick County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sedgwick County community of Bellaire.
      • Smith County
      • This Bellaire is located in Smith County and lies 576 miles [927 km] to the north northwest of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Smith County community of Bellaire.
    • Michigan
      • Antrim County
      • This Bellaire is located in Antrim County and lies 974 miles [1,567.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Antrim County community of Bellaire.
      • Baraga 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 Michigan community of Bellaire [Baraga County].
    • Minnesota
      • Ramsey County
      • This Bellaire is located in Ramsey County and lies 869 miles [1,398.5 km]<1> to the north of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ramsey County community of Bellaire.
    • New York
      • Queens County
      • This Bellaire is located in Queens County and lies 1,237 miles [1,990.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Bellaire.
    • Ohio
      • Belmont County
      • This Bellaire is located in Belmont County and lies 886 miles [1,425.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Belmont County community of Bellaire.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lancaster County
      • This Bellaire is located in Lancaster County and lies 1,086 miles [1,747.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Bellaire.
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Bellaire is located in Harris County and lies 219 miles [352.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Bellaire.
      • Hidalgo County
      • This Bellaire is located in Hidalgo County and lies 510 miles [820.8 km] to the south southwest of the Bellaire that is located in Bossier Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hidalgo County community of Bellaire.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Bellaire ...

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.

  • Cedar Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cedar Grove is located in Caddo Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Cloverdale
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cloverdale is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
  • Golden Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Golden Meadows is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Meadows
  • Green Acres
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Green Acres is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acres
  • Greenacres Place
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Greenacres Place is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenacres Place
  • Live Oak
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Live Oak is located in Caddo Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak
  • Lucas
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Lucas is located in Caddo Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucas
  • Pecan Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Pecan Park is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Park
  • Red Chute
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Red Chute is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Chute
  • River Bend
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • River Bend is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Bend
  • Swan Lake
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Swan Lake is located in Bossier Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Lake
  • University Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • University Park is located in Caddo Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Park

How Far From Bellaire to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bellaire to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Benton, which is the Seat of Bossier Parish, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Bellaire to Benton, with an average speed<3> 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 four to five hours.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 204 miles [328.3 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,030 miles [1,657.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 41 days and walking would take 59 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,605 miles [12,239.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,481 miles [8,820.8 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bellaire) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Bellaire 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 parish. 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 Bellaire 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 Bellaire. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.4874, Longitude: -93.6732       In this case, the coordinates for Bellaire have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.857 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.007 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.326 degrees.