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 The Highlands:
30.352971, -91.064826
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 The Highlands
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 47 communities that are also named The Highlands.
Within Louisiana, the name The Highlands is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of 47 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 47 communities, 46 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Etowah County
This The Highlands is located in Etowah County and lies 389 miles [626 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Etowah County community of The Highlands.
Madison County
This The Highlands is located in Madison County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of The Highlands.
Shelby County
This The Highlands is located in Shelby County and lies 316 miles [508.6 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of The Highlands.
Tuscaloosa County
This The Highlands is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 286 miles [460.3 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of The Highlands.
British Columbia
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
California
San Mateo County
This The Highlands is located in San Mateo County and lies 1,849 miles [2,975.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Mateo County community of The Highlands.
Santa Clara County
This The Highlands is located in Santa Clara County and lies 1,834 miles [2,951.5 km] to the west northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Clara County community of The Highlands.
Colorado
Arapahoe 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 Colorado community of The Highlands [Arapahoe County].
Denver 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 Colorado community of The Highlands [Denver County].
Jefferson County
This The Highlands is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of The Highlands.
Delaware
New Castle 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 Delaware community of The Highlands [New Castle County].
Florida
Broward 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 Florida community of The Highlands [Broward County].
Duval County
This The Highlands is located in Duval County and lies 558 miles [898 km]<1> to the east of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of The Highlands.
Georgia
Cobb County
This The Highlands is located in Cobb County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of The Highlands.
Fayette County
This The Highlands is located in Fayette County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km] to the east northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of The Highlands.
Paulding County
This The Highlands is located in Paulding County and lies 438 miles [704.9 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of The Highlands.
Idaho
Ada County
This The Highlands is located in Ada County and lies 1,651 miles [2,657 km]<1> to the northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ada County community of The Highlands.
Illinois
Cook County
This The Highlands is located in Cook County and lies 832 miles [1,339 km]<1> to the north of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of The Highlands.
DuPage 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 Illinois community of The Highlands [DuPage County].
Kentucky
Fayette County
This The Highlands is located in Fayette County and lies 651 miles [1,047.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of The Highlands.
Jefferson County
This The Highlands is located in Jefferson County and lies 623 miles [1,002.6 km] to the north northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of The Highlands.
Maine
Cumberland County
This The Highlands is located in Cumberland County and lies 1,461 miles [2,351.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of The Highlands.
Piscataquis County
This The Highlands is located in Piscataquis County and lies 1,559 miles [2,509 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piscataquis County community of The Highlands.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This The Highlands is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 1,017 miles [1,636.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of The Highlands.
Calvert County
This The Highlands is located in Calvert County and lies 1,004 miles [1,615.8 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of The Highlands.
Cecil County
This The Highlands is located in Cecil County and lies 1,075 miles [1,730 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cecil County community of The Highlands.
Montgomery 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 Maryland community of The Highlands [Montgomery County].
Massachusetts
Essex County
This The Highlands is located in Essex County and lies 1,395 miles [2,245 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of The Highlands.
Hampden County
This The Highlands is located in Hampden County and lies 1,308 miles [2,105 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of The Highlands.
Middlesex County
This The Highlands is located in Middlesex County and lies 1,379 miles [2,219.3 km] to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of The Highlands.
New Brunswick
This The Highlands lies 1,686 miles [2,713.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
New Hampshire
Coos County
This The Highlands is located in Coos County and lies 1,441 miles [2,319.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coos County community of The Highlands.
New Jersey
Monmouth 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 New Jersey community of The Highlands [Monmouth County].
Newfoundland and Labrador
This The Highlands lies 2,088 miles [3,360.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
North Carolina
Jackson County
This The Highlands is located in Jackson County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of The Highlands.
Orange County
This The Highlands is located in Orange County and lies 792 miles [1,274.6 km] to the east northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of The Highlands.
Ohio
Clermont County
This The Highlands is located in Clermont County and lies 722 miles [1,161.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clermont County community of The Highlands.
Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
This The Highlands is located in Luzerne County and lies 1,122 miles [1,805.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of The Highlands.
South Carolina
Berkeley County
This The Highlands is located in Berkeley County and lies 673 miles [1,083.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of The Highlands.
Greenville County
This The Highlands is located in Greenville County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km] to the east northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of The Highlands.
Horry County
This The Highlands is located in Horry County and lies 752 miles [1,210.2 km] to the east northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of The Highlands.
Tennessee
Grainger County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of The Highlands [Grainger County].
Texas
Harris County
This The Highlands is located in Harris County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km]<1> to the west of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of The Highlands.
Hidalgo County
This The Highlands is located in Hidalgo County and lies 507 miles [815.9 km] to the west southwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hidalgo County community of The Highlands.
Utah
Davis County
This The Highlands is located in Davis County and lies 1,370 miles [2,204.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of The Highlands.
Virginia
Arlington County
This The Highlands is located in Arlington County and lies 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of The Highlands.
Washington
King County
This The Highlands is located in King County and lies 2,028 miles [3,263.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the The Highlands that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of The Highlands.
Curious and Interesting Names Near The Highlands ...
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 (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Airline Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 The Highlands to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in The Highlands and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 989 miles [1,591.6 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from The Highlands 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 57 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 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,468 miles [8,799.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- The Highlands) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 The Highlands 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>
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 The Highlands, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 The Highlands 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 The Highlands. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3530, Longitude: -91.0648 In this case, the coordinates for The Highlands have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.972 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.524 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.548 degrees.