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 Dayton:
30.488245, -91.161774
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 50 communities that share the name Dayton.
Within Louisiana, the name Dayton is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 49 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 49 communities, 47 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Dayton, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Marengo County
This Dayton is located in Marengo County and lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marengo County community of Dayton.
Arkansas
Sebastian County
This Dayton is located in Sebastian County and lies 365 miles [587.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sebastian County community of Dayton.
California
Butte County
This Dayton is located in Butte County and lies 1,836 miles [2,954.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butte County community of Dayton.
Idaho
Franklin County
This Dayton is located in Franklin County and lies 1,403 miles [2,257.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Dayton.
Illinois
Henry County
This Dayton is located in Henry County and lies 761 miles [1,224.7 km]<1> to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Dayton.
La Salle County
This Dayton is located in La Salle County and lies 763 miles [1,227.9 km] to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the La Salle County community of Dayton.
Indiana
Tippecanoe County
This Dayton is located in Tippecanoe County and lies 725 miles [1,166.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tippecanoe County community of Dayton.
Iowa
Iowa County
This Dayton is located in Iowa County and lies 786 miles [1,264.9 km]<1> to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iowa County community of Dayton.
Page County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dayton [Page County].
Webster County
This Dayton is located in Webster County and lies 828 miles [1,332.5 km] to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Dayton.
Kansas
Bourbon County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Bourbon County].
Dickinson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Dickinson County].
Jefferson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Jefferson County].
Labette County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Labette County].
Marshall County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Marshall County].
Osage County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Osage County].
Shawnee County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dayton [Shawnee County].
Kentucky
Campbell County
This Dayton is located in Campbell County and lies 705 miles [1,134.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Dayton.
Maine
York County
This Dayton is located in York County and lies 1,442 miles [2,320.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Dayton.
Maryland
Howard County
This Dayton is located in Howard County and lies 1,002 miles [1,612.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Dayton.
Michigan
Berrien County
This Dayton is located in Berrien County and lies 823 miles [1,324.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berrien County community of Dayton.
Tuscola County
This Dayton is located in Tuscola County and lies 994 miles [1,599.7 km] to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscola County community of Dayton.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
This Dayton is located in Hennepin County and lies 1,022 miles [1,644.7 km]<1> to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hennepin County community of Dayton.
Mississippi
Amite County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dayton [Amite County].
Missouri
Cass County
This Dayton is located in Cass County and lies 578 miles [930.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Dayton.
Newton County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dayton [Newton County].
Montana
Lake County
This Dayton is located in Lake County and lies 1,710 miles [2,752 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Dayton.
Nevada
Lyon County
This Dayton is located in Lyon County and lies 1,711 miles [2,753.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyon County community of Dayton.
New Jersey
Middlesex County
This Dayton is located in Middlesex County and lies 1,155 miles [1,858.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Dayton.
New Mexico
Eddy County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Dayton [Eddy County].
New York
Cattaraugus County
This Dayton is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 1,063 miles [1,710.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Dayton.
North Carolina
Durham County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dayton [Durham County].
Nova Scotia
This Dayton lies 1,648 miles [2,652.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Ohio
Greene County
This Dayton is located in Greene County and lies 756 miles [1,216.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Dayton.
Montgomery County
This Dayton is located in Montgomery County and lies 750 miles [1,207 km] to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Dayton.
Ontario
This Dayton lies 1,165 miles [1,874.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Oregon
Yamhill County
This Dayton is located in Yamhill County and lies 1,996 miles [3,212.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yamhill County community of Dayton.
Pennsylvania
Armstrong County
This Dayton is located in Armstrong County and lies 978 miles [1,573.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Armstrong County community of Dayton.
Dauphin County
This Dayton is located in Dauphin County and lies 1,069 miles [1,720.4 km] to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Dayton.
Tennessee
Rhea County
This Dayton is located in Rhea County and lies 495 miles [796.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rhea County community of Dayton.
Texas
Liberty County
This Dayton is located in Liberty County and lies 225 miles [362.1 km]<1> to the west of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Liberty County community of Dayton.
Virginia
Rockingham County
This Dayton is located in Rockingham County and lies 883 miles [1,421.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Dayton.
Washington
Clark County
This Dayton is located in Clark County and lies 1,988 miles [3,199.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Dayton.
Columbia County
This Dayton is located in Columbia County and lies 1,801 miles [2,898.4 km] to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Dayton.
Mason County
This Dayton is located in Mason County and lies 2,052 miles [3,302.4 km] to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mason County community of Dayton.
West Virginia
Harrison County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dayton [Harrison County].
Preston County
This Dayton is located in Preston County and lies 893 miles [1,437.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Preston County community of Dayton.
Wisconsin
Green County
This Dayton is located in Green County and lies 856 miles [1,377.6 km]<1> to the north of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Green County community of Dayton.
Wyoming
Sheridan County
This Dayton is located in Sheridan County and lies 1,322 miles [2,127.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dayton that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sheridan County community of Dayton.
Communities Beyond North America ...
Australia
Distance: 10,827 miles [17,424.4 km]<1> to the west
Curious and Interesting Names Near Dayton ...
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 Terrace (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airline Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Dayton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Dayton and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the south (S).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 988 miles [1,590 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Dayton 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 57 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 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,590 miles [12,214.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,466 miles [8,796.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dayton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dayton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4882, Longitude: -91.1618 In this case, the coordinates for Dayton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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 Dayton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Dayton 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>
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 Dayton to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.047 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.629 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.567 degrees.