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 College Hills:
30.392414, -91.150106
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 College Hills
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 seven communities that are also named College Hills.
Within Louisiana, the name College Hills is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This College Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of College Hills.
Colorado
Adams County
This College Hills is located in Adams County and lies 1,020 miles [1,641.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of College Hills.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This College Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 1,021 miles [1,643.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of College Hills.
Baltimore County
This College Hills is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,018 miles [1,638.3 km] to the northeast of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of College Hills.
Ohio
Greene 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 Ohio community of College Hills [Greene County].
Tennessee
Greene County
This College Hills is located in Greene County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of College Hills.
Wisconsin
Dane County
This College Hills is located in Dane County and lies 881 miles [1,417.8 km]<1> to the north of the College Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dane County community of College Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near College Hills ...
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.
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 community such as College Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in College Hills and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the north (N).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 991 miles [1,594.9 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from College Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>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 57 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 39 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,884 miles [11,078.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,594 miles [12,221.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,470 miles [8,803.1 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- College Hills) 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 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 College Hills 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 College Hills 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 College Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3924, Longitude: -91.1501 In this case, the coordinates for College Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.029 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.595 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.576 degrees.