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 Fairmont:
30.436302, -91.037603
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 29 communities that share the name Fairmont.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Fairmont.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 26 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Grant Parish
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fairmont [Grant Parish].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Fairmont lies 1,877 miles [3,020.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
California
Los Angeles County
This Fairmont is located in Los Angeles County and lies 1,615 miles [2,599.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Fairmont.
Florida
Duval County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Fairmont [Duval County].
Illinois
Madison County
This Fairmont is located in Madison County and lies 586 miles [943.1 km]<2> to the north of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Fairmont.
Will County
This Fairmont is located in Will County and lies 785 miles [1,263.3 km] to the north of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Fairmont.
Kansas
Riley County
This Fairmont is located in Riley County and lies 679 miles [1,092.7 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Riley County community of Fairmont.
Kentucky
Webster County
This Fairmont is located in Webster County and lies 518 miles [833.6 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Fairmont.
Maryland
Harford County
This Fairmont is located in Harford County and lies 1,039 miles [1,672.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Fairmont.
Minnesota
Martin County
This Fairmont is located in Martin County and lies 931 miles [1,498.3 km]<2> to the north of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Martin County community of Fairmont.
Missouri
Clark County
This Fairmont is located in Clark County and lies 685 miles [1,102.4 km]<2> to the north of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Fairmont.
Nebraska
Fillmore County
This Fairmont is located in Fillmore County and lies 793 miles [1,276.2 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fillmore County community of Fairmont.
North Carolina
Davidson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fairmont [Davidson County].
Robeson County
This Fairmont is located in Robeson County and lies 748 miles [1,203.8 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Robeson County community of Fairmont.
Wake County
This Fairmont is located in Wake County and lies 804 miles [1,293.9 km] to the east northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Fairmont.
Nova Scotia
This Fairmont lies 1,882 miles [3,028.8 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Ohio
Guernsey County
This Fairmont is located in Guernsey County and lies 849 miles [1,366.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Fairmont.
Oklahoma
Garfield County
This Fairmont is located in Garfield County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garfield County community of Fairmont.
Ontario
This Fairmont lies 1,021 miles [1,643.1 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Pennsylvania
Fayette County
This Fairmont is located in Fayette County and lies 925 miles [1,488.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Fairmont.
Westmoreland County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmont [Westmoreland County].
South Carolina
Spartanburg County
This Fairmont is located in Spartanburg County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Fairmont.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairmont [Hamilton County].
Rutherford County
This Fairmont is located in Rutherford County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Fairmont.
Texas
Floyd County
This Fairmont is located in Floyd County and lies 640 miles [1,030 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Fairmont.
Utah
Weber County
This Fairmont is located in Weber County and lies 1,380 miles [2,220.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Fairmont.
Washington
Jefferson County
This Fairmont is located in Jefferson County and lies 2,066 miles [3,324.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Fairmont.
Snohomish County
This Fairmont is located in Snohomish County and lies 2,038 miles [3,279.8 km] to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Fairmont.
West Virginia
Marion County
This Fairmont is located in Marion County and lies 876 miles [1,409.8 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Fairmont.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairmont ...
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 southwest)
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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Fairmont to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairmont and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 984 miles [1,583.6 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Fairmont 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 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,587 miles [12,210.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,463 miles [8,791.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Fairmont 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fairmont) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fairmont. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4363, Longitude: -91.0376 In this case, the coordinates for Fairmont have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Fairmont 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 315.965 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.527 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.526 degrees.