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 Broadmoor:
30.447135, -91.085105
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.
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 East Baton Rouge Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 21 communities that share the name Broadmoor.
There are four communities within Louisiana that are also named Broadmoor.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Lafayette Parish
This Broadmoor is located in Lafayette Parish and lies 61 miles [98.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lafayette Parish community of Broadmoor.
Orleans Parish
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 Louisiana community of Broadmoor [Orleans Parish].
Saint Tammany Parish
This Broadmoor is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 79 miles [127.1 km]<1> to the east of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Broadmoor.
Terrebonne Parish
This Broadmoor is located in Terrebonne Parish and lies 59 miles [95 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Terrebonne Parish community of Broadmoor.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Elmore County
This Broadmoor is located in Elmore County and lies 313 miles [503.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elmore County community of Broadmoor.
Jefferson County
This Broadmoor is located in Jefferson County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km] to the northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Broadmoor.
Alaska
This Broadmoor lies 3,365 miles [5,415.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
British Columbia
This Broadmoor lies 2,108 miles [3,392.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
California
San Mateo County
This Broadmoor is located in San Mateo County and lies 1,854 miles [2,983.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Mateo County community of Broadmoor.
Colorado
El Paso County
This Broadmoor is located in El Paso County and lies 969 miles [1,559.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Broadmoor.
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Broadmoor is located in Muscogee County and lies 384 miles [618 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Broadmoor.
Illinois
Marshall County
This Broadmoor is located in Marshall County and lies 743 miles [1,195.7 km]<1> to the north of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Broadmoor.
Indiana
Marion County
This Broadmoor is located in Marion County and lies 704 miles [1,133 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Broadmoor.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Broadmoor is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Broadmoor.
New Mexico
Chaves 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 New Mexico community of Broadmoor [Chaves County].
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Broadmoor is located in Greenville County and lies 594 miles [956 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Broadmoor.
Tennessee
Dyer County
This Broadmoor is located in Dyer County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dyer County community of Broadmoor.
Texas
Potter 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 Texas community of Broadmoor [Potter County].
Virginia
Chesapeake City
This Broadmoor is located in Chesapeake City and lies 953 miles [1,533.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesapeake City community of Broadmoor.
Washington
King County
This Broadmoor is located in King County and lies 2,029 miles [3,265.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Broadmoor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Broadmoor.
West Virginia
Wood 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 West Virginia community of Broadmoor [Wood County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Broadmoor ...
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.
Airline Acres (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airline Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Woodland Ridge Park is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
How Far From Broadmoor 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 community such as Broadmoor to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Broadmoor and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 986 miles [1,586.8 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Broadmoor to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 56 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 39 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,879 miles [11,070.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,589 miles [12,213.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,465 miles [8,795.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Broadmoor) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Broadmoor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4471, Longitude: -91.0851 In this case, the coordinates for Broadmoor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 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 Broadmoor 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>
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.
<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 Broadmoor to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.995 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.564 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.543 degrees.