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 Howell:
30.523800, -91.144273
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 28 communities that are also named Howell.
Within Louisiana, the name Howell is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of 28 communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Woodruff County
This Howell is located in Woodruff County and lies 316 miles [508.6 km]<1> to the north of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Woodruff County community of Howell.
Georgia
Columbia County
This Howell is located in Columbia County and lies 557 miles [896.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Howell.
Echols County
This Howell is located in Echols County and lies 480 miles [772.5 km] to the east of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Echols County community of Howell.
Idaho
Boise 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 Idaho community of Howell [Boise County].
Latah County
This Howell is located in Latah County and lies 1,766 miles [2,842.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Latah County community of Howell.
Indiana
Vanderburgh 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 Indiana community of Howell [Vanderburgh County].
Iowa
Marion 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 Iowa community of Howell [Marion County].
Kansas
Ford County
This Howell is located in Ford County and lies 718 miles [1,155.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ford County community of Howell.
Michigan
Livingston County
This Howell is located in Livingston County and lies 924 miles [1,487 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Howell.
Minnesota
Carlton 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 Minnesota community of Howell [Carlton County].
Mississippi
George County
This Howell is located in George County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km]<1> to the east of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the George County community of Howell.
Jackson 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 Mississippi community of Howell [Jackson County].
Rankin 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 Mississippi community of Howell [Rankin County].
Missouri
Saint Charles County
This Howell is located in Saint Charles County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the north of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Charles County community of Howell.
New Jersey
Monmouth 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 New Jersey community of Howell [Monmouth County].
New York
Orange County
This Howell is located in Orange County and lies 1,197 miles [1,926.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Howell.
North Carolina
Beaufort 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 North Carolina community of Howell [Beaufort County].
Ohio
Lawrence County
This Howell is located in Lawrence County and lies 734 miles [1,181.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Howell.
Logan County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Logan County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of Howell.
Oregon
Marion 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 Oregon community of Howell [Marion County].
Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
This Howell is located in Cumberland County and lies 1,039 miles [1,672.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Howell.
South Dakota
Hand 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 South Dakota community of Howell [Hand County].
Tennessee
Lincoln County
This Howell is located in Lincoln County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Howell.
Utah
Box Elder County
This Howell is located in Box Elder County and lies 1,413 miles [2,274 km]<1> to the northwest of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Box Elder County community of Howell.
Virginia
Patrick 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 Howell [Patrick County].
Roanoke County
This Howell is located in Roanoke County and lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke County community of Howell.
West Virginia
Cabell 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 West Virginia community of Howell [Cabell County].
Wyoming
Albany County
This Howell is located in Albany County and lies 1,101 miles [1,771.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Howell that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Howell.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Howell ...
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 southwest)
Airline Terrace is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Howell to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Howell and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the south (S).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 985 miles [1,585.2 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Howell 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 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,588 miles [12,211.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,464 miles [8,793.5 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Howell) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Howell, 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 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 Howell 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>
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 Howell 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 Howell. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5238, Longitude: -91.1443 In this case, the coordinates for Howell have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.041 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.627 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.555 degrees.