Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Blanchard, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Blanchard and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Blanchard
- 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 Blanchard:
- 32.596967, -93.883151
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Blanchard
- 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 Caddo Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Caddo Parish
- Since Blanchard is near Bossier Parish and also Harrison County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Bossier Parish
- eBird sighting report for Harrison 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Blanchard ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Blanchard.
Within Louisiana, the name Blanchard is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Delaware
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Maine
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- We haven't found the location of this community yet.
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Hardin County
- This Blanchard is located in Hardin County and lies 797 miles [1,282.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Blanchard that is located in Caddo Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardin County community of Blanchard.
- Licking County
- This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Blanchard [Licking County].
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- This Blanchard is located in Allegheny County and lies 955 miles [1,536.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Blanchard that is located in Caddo Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Blanchard.
- Centre County
- This Blanchard is located in Centre County and lies 1,070 miles [1,722 km] to the northeast of the Blanchard that is located in Caddo Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Centre County community of Blanchard.
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
Curious and Interesting Names Near Blanchard ...
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.
- Brian
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest) - Cash Point
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cash Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash Point
- Cash Point is located in Caddo Parish
- Cash Point Ferry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cash Point Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash Point Ferry
- Cash Point Ferry is located in Bossier Parish
- Dixie
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north) - Dukedale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Gas Center
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gas Center have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas Center
- Gas Center is located in Caddo Parish
- Good Roads
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Good Roads have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Roads
- Good Roads is located in Caddo Parish
- Lakeview
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Longwood
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Longwood Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Longwood Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longwood Village
- Longwood Village is located in Caddo Parish
- Pleasant Grove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
- Pleasant Grove is located in Caddo Parish
- Twilight Meadows
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twilight Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twilight Meadows
- Twilight Meadows is located in Caddo Parish
- Willow Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Ridge
- Willow Ridge is located in Caddo Parish
How Far From Blanchard 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 town such as Blanchard to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Blanchard and extending to:
- Shreveport, which is the Seat of Caddo Parish, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Blanchard to Shreveport, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 218 miles [350.8 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,037 miles [1,668.9 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<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,608 miles [12,243.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,484 miles [8,825.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Blanchard. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Caddo Parish: www.caddo.org/
The official website for State of Louisiana: https://www.louisiana.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Blanchard, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Blanchard) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blanchard. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.5970, Longitude: -93.8832 In this case, the coordinates for Blanchard have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Blanchard 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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Blanchard to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.005 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.194 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.401 degrees. |