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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 Berwick, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Berwick and the surrounding area.
- 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 Berwick:
- 29.694563, -91.219913
- 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 Berwick
- 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 Saint Mary Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Mary Parish
- Since Berwick is near Saint Martin Parish and also Assumption Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Martin Parish
- Open the eBird sighting report for Assumption 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 Berwick
Communities Also Named Berwick ...
We found fourteen communities that are also named Berwick.
Within Louisiana, the name Berwick is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Clay County
- This Berwick is located in Clay County and lies 409 miles [658.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Berwick.
- Illinois
- Warren County
- This Berwick is located in Warren County and lies 767 miles [1,234.4 km]<1> to the north of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Berwick.
- Iowa
- Polk County
- This Berwick is located in Polk County and lies 836 miles [1,345.4 km]<1> to the north of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Berwick.
- Kansas
- Nemaha County
- This Berwick is located in Nemaha County and lies 753 miles [1,211.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nemaha County community of Berwick.
- Saline 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 Kansas community of Berwick [Saline County].
- Maine
- York County
- This Berwick is located in York County and lies 1,461 miles [2,351.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Berwick.
- Mississippi
- Amite County
- This Berwick is located in Amite County and lies 99 miles [159.3 km]<1> to the north of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Amite County community of Berwick.
- Missouri
- Newton County
- This Berwick is located in Newton County and lies 526 miles [846.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Berwick.
- New Brunswick
- This Berwick lies 1,772 miles [2,851.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- North Dakota
- McHenry County
- This Berwick is located in McHenry County and lies 1,374 miles [2,211.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Berwick.
- Nova Scotia
- This Berwick lies 1,785 miles [2,872.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- Ohio
- Seneca County
- This Berwick is located in Seneca County and lies 899 miles [1,446.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Seneca County community of Berwick.
- Ontario
- This Berwick lies 1,382 miles [2,224.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- Pennsylvania
- Columbia County
- This Berwick is located in Columbia County and lies 1,148 miles [1,847.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Berwick that is located in Saint Mary Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Berwick.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Berwick ...
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.
- Bayou Crab
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Bayou Sale
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Boeuf
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Boeuf is located in Assumption Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boeuf
- Centerville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Fairville
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Fairville is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairville
- Fivemile Oaks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Fivemile Oaks is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile Oaks
- Greenwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Greenwood is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Idlewild
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Idlewild is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewild
- Lower Texas
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Maria
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Maria is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maria
- Maryland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Maryland is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maryland
- Shadyside
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Shadyside is located in Saint Mary Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadyside
- Upper Texas
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
How Far From Berwick to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a town such as Berwick to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Berwick and extending to:
- Franklin, which is the Seat of Saint Mary Parish, lies 18 miles [29 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Berwick to Franklin, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 52 miles [83.7 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,026 miles [1,651.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 40 days and walking would take 59 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,922 miles [11,139.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,629 miles [12,277.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,506 miles [8,861 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Berwick) 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 Berwick 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Berwick 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 Berwick. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6946, Longitude: -91.2199 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.986 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.452 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.699 degrees. |
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