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 Highland Hills:
30.386859, -91.139550
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 Highland 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 twelve communities that are also named Highland Hills.
Within Louisiana, the name Highland Hills is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bibb County
This Highland Hills is located in Bibb County and lies 474 miles [762.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Highland Hills.
Fayette County
This Highland Hills is located in Fayette County and lies 448 miles [721 km] to the east northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Highland Hills.
Illinois
DuPage County
This Highland Hills is located in DuPage County and lies 810 miles [1,303.6 km]<1> to the north of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DuPage County community of Highland Hills.
New York
Saratoga County
This Highland Hills is located in Saratoga County and lies 1,300 miles [2,092.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saratoga County community of Highland Hills.
North Carolina
Henderson County
This Highland Hills is located in Henderson County and lies 608 miles [978.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Highland Hills.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Highland Hills is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 932 miles [1,499.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Highland Hills.
Tennessee
Greene County
This Highland Hills is located in Greene County and lies 623 miles [1,002.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Highland Hills.
Loudon County
This Highland Hills is located in Loudon County and lies 546 miles [878.7 km] to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudon County community of Highland Hills.
Texas
Bexar 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 Texas community of Highland Hills [Bexar County].
Virginia
Chesterfield County
This Highland Hills is located in Chesterfield County and lies 919 miles [1,479 km]<1> to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesterfield County community of Highland Hills.
Halifax County
This Highland Hills is located in Halifax County and lies 829 miles [1,334.1 km] to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Highland Hills.
Radford City
This Highland Hills is located in Radford City and lies 763 miles [1,227.9 km] to the northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Radford City community of Highland Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Highland 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.
Bluebonnet Ridge (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Bluebonnet Ridge is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Highland Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Highland 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 Highland 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Highland 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 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 Highland 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 Highland 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 Highland Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3869, Longitude: -91.1395 In this case, the coordinates for Highland Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.022 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.586 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.573 degrees.