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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Cedar Crest:
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 Cedar Crest
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 East Baton Rouge Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found thirteen communities that are also named Cedar Crest.
Within Louisiana, the name Cedar Crest is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cedar Crest, Jefferson County
This Cedar Crest is located in Jefferson County and lies 324 miles [521.4 km]<2> to the northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Cedar Crest.
Cedar Crest, Tuscaloosa County
This Cedar Crest is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km] to the northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Cedar Crest.
California
Cedar Crest, Fresno County
This Cedar Crest is located in Fresno County and lies 1,673 miles [2,692.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fresno County community of Cedar Crest.
Cedar Crest, Nevada County
This Cedar Crest is located in Nevada County and lies 1,673 miles [2,692.4 km] to the west northwest of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nevada County community of Cedar Crest.
Colorado
Cedar Crest, Pueblo County
This Cedar Crest is located in Pueblo County and lies 910 miles [1,464.5 km]<2> to the northwest of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pueblo County community of Cedar Crest.
Massachusetts
Cedar Crest, Plymouth County
This Cedar Crest is located in Plymouth County and lies 1,386 miles [2,230.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Cedar Crest.
Missouri
Cedar Crest, Franklin County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Franklin County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Cedar Crest.
New Jersey
Cedar Crest, Ocean County
This Cedar Crest is located in Ocean County and lies 1,146 miles [1,844.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Cedar Crest.
New Mexico
Cedar Crest, Bernalillo County
This Cedar Crest is located in Bernalillo County and lies 944 miles [1,519.2 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bernalillo County community of Cedar Crest.
North Carolina
Cedar Crest, Alamance County
This Cedar Crest is located in Alamance County and lies 775 miles [1,247.2 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Cedar Crest.
Oklahoma
Cedar Crest, Mayes County
This Cedar Crest is located in Mayes County and lies 460 miles [740.3 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mayes County community of Cedar Crest.
Texas
Cedar Crest, Dallas County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<4> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cedar Crest [Dallas County].
Virginia
Cedar Crest, Fairfax County
This Cedar Crest is located in Fairfax County and lies 975 miles [1,569.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Cedar Crest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Cedar Crest.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cedar Crest ...
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 (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Airline Acres is also located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 included the distance from a community such as Cedar Crest to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cedar Crest and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west northwest (WNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 986 miles [1,586.8 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Cedar Crest to White House, with an average speed<5>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<6> 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).<7>
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).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,465 miles [8,795.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
GPS Coordinates for Cedar Crest: Decimal: 30.42991, -91.070382 DDMMSS: 30° 25' 47", -91° 4' 13"
<2>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cedar Crest) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Cedar Crest, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cedar Crest 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.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Cedar Crest 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 Cedar Crest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4299, Longitude: -91.0704 In this case, the coordinates for Cedar Crest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.984 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.548 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.539 degrees.