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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Flat Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Flat Creek and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Flat Creek:
    • 31.971192, -92.390515
    • 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 Flat Creek
  • 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 Winn Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Winn Parish
    • Since Flat Creek is near La Salle Parish and also Caldwell Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for La Salle Parish
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caldwell Parish
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Flat Creek

Communities Also Named Flat Creek ...

We found thirteen communities that are also named Flat Creek.

Within Louisiana, the name Flat Creek is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jefferson County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Jefferson County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Flat Creek.
    • British Columbia
      • This Flat Creek lies 1,845 miles [2,969.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
    • Georgia
      • Fayette 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 Georgia community of Flat Creek [Fayette County].
      • Hall County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Hall County and lies 513 miles [825.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Flat Creek.
    • Idaho
      • Benewah County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Benewah County and lies 1,647 miles [2,650.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benewah County community of Flat Creek.
    • Kentucky
      • Bath 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 Kentucky community of Flat Creek [Bath County].
    • Missouri
      • Barry County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Barry County and lies 338 miles [544 km]<1> to the north of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barry County community of Flat Creek.
    • New York
      • Montgomery County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Montgomery County and lies 1,231 miles [1,981.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Flat Creek.
      • Schoharie County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Schoharie County and lies 1,220 miles [1,963.4 km] to the northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schoharie County community of Flat Creek.
    • North Carolina
      • Buncombe County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Buncombe County and lies 621 miles [999.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buncombe County community of Flat Creek.
    • South Carolina
      • Lancaster 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 South Carolina community of Flat Creek [Lancaster County].
    • Tennessee
      • Bedford County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Bedford County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Flat Creek.
      • Overton County
      • This Flat Creek is located in Overton County and lies 502 miles [807.9 km] to the northeast of the Flat Creek that is located in Winn Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Overton County community of Flat Creek.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Flat Creek ...

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.

  • Beech ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Beech is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech
  • Chester
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Chester is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
  • Cotton Plant
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cotton Plant is located in Caldwell Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Plant
  • Curry ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Curry is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curry
  • Hickory Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Hickory Valley is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Valley
  • Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Hill is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
  • Kelly Front ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Kelly Front is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Front
  • Maxwells Old Ferry
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Maxwells Old Ferry is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwells Old Ferry
  • Royal
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Royal is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
  • Salt ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Salt is located in Winn Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt
  • Standard
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)

How Far From Flat Creek to ...

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 Flat Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Flat Creek and extending to:

  • Winnfield, which is the Seat of Winn Parish, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Flat Creek to Winnfield, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 127 miles [204.4 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 985 miles [1,585.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 39 days and walking would take 56 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,855 miles [11,032.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,575 miles [12,190.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,450 miles [8,770.9 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- Flat Creek) 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 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 Flat Creek 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 Flat Creek 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 Flat Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.9712, Longitude: -92.3905       In this case, the coordinates for Flat Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.982 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.917 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.856 degrees.