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 Glen Oaks:
30.512134, -91.146496
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 twelve communities that share the name Glen Oaks.
Within Louisiana, the name Glen Oaks is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Glen Oaks is located in Jefferson County and lies 319 miles [513.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Glen Oaks.
Lauderdale County
This Glen Oaks is located in Lauderdale County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km] to the north northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Glen Oaks.
Arizona
Yavapai 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 Arizona community of Glen Oaks [Yavapai County].
California
San Diego County
This Glen Oaks is located in San Diego County and lies 1,512 miles [2,433.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of Glen Oaks.
Georgia
Clarke County
This Glen Oaks is located in Clarke County and lies 508 miles [817.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Glen Oaks.
Maryland
Howard County
This Glen Oaks is located in Howard County and lies 1,005 miles [1,617.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Glen Oaks.
Montgomery 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 Maryland community of Glen Oaks [Montgomery County].
New York
Queens County
This Glen Oaks is located in Queens County and lies 1,203 miles [1,936 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Glen Oaks.
Tennessee
Sumner County
This Glen Oaks is located in Sumner County and lies 478 miles [769.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of Glen Oaks.
Texas
San Augustine County
This Glen Oaks is located in San Augustine County and lies 182 miles [292.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Augustine County community of Glen Oaks.
Utah
Davis County
This Glen Oaks is located in Davis County and lies 1,359 miles [2,187.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Glen Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Glen Oaks.
Virginia
Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Glen Oaks [Fairfax County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Glen Oaks ...
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 west)
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Glen Oaks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glen Oaks and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the south (S).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 986 miles [1,586.8 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Glen Oaks 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 6,878 miles [11,069.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,588 miles [12,211.7 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>
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- Glen Oaks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Glen Oaks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5121, Longitude: -91.1465 In this case, the coordinates for Glen Oaks 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 Glen Oaks, 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 Glen Oaks 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 Glen Oaks 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 316.041 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.625 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.558 degrees.