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 Hill:
30.415747, -91.079826
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 twenty communities that are also named The Hill.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named The Hill.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Winn Parish
This The Hill is located in Winn Parish and lies 139 miles [223.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winn Parish community of The Hill.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Etowah 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 Alabama community of The Hill [Etowah County].
California
Shasta County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Shasta County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of The Hill.
Georgia
Richmond 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 The Hill [Richmond County].
Illinois
Effingham County
This The Hill is located in Effingham County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Effingham County community of The Hill.
Maine
Aroostook County
This The Hill is located in Aroostook County and lies 1,656 miles [2,665.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of The Hill.
Michigan
Oscoda 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 Michigan community of The Hill [Oscoda County].
Montana
Liberty County
This The Hill is located in Liberty County and lies 1,647 miles [2,650.6 km]<1> to the north northwest of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Liberty County community of The Hill.
Missoula 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 Montana community of The Hill [Missoula County].
Nevada
Churchill 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 Nevada community of The Hill [Churchill County].
New Hampshire
Merrimack County
This The Hill is located in Merrimack County and lies 1,394 miles [2,243.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Merrimack County community of The Hill.
New Mexico
Dona Ana County
This The Hill is located in Dona Ana County and lies 938 miles [1,509.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dona Ana County community of The Hill.
New York
Orange 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 York community of The Hill [Orange County].
North Carolina
Pitt 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 North Carolina community of The Hill [Pitt County].
Oklahoma
Le Flore County
This The Hill is located in Le Flore County and lies 378 miles [608.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Le Flore County community of The Hill.
Pennsylvania
Mercer 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 Pennsylvania community of The Hill [Mercer County].
Tennessee
Maury County
This The Hill is located in Maury County and lies 427 miles [687.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the The Hill that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of The Hill.
Texas
Bastrop 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 The Hill [Bastrop County].
Virginia
Scott 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 Virginia community of The Hill [Scott County].
West Virginia
Boone 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 West Virginia community of The Hill [Boone County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near The Hill ...
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 northeast)
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 Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in The Hill and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west northwest (WNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from The Hill 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 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,590 miles [12,214.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,466 miles [8,796.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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- The Hill) 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 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 The Hill 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 Hill, 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 Hill 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 Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4157, Longitude: -91.0798 In this case, the coordinates for The Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.988 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.551 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.545 degrees.