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 Jones Creek:
30.412691, -91.014825
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 Jones Creek
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 six communities that are also named Jones Creek.
Within Louisiana, the name Jones Creek is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Union County
This Jones Creek is located in Union County and lies 504 miles [811.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Jones Creek that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Jones Creek.
Kentucky
Morgan County
This Jones Creek is located in Morgan County and lies 680 miles [1,094.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Jones Creek that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Jones Creek.
North Carolina
Anson 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 North Carolina community of Jones Creek [Anson County].
Texas
Brazoria County
This Jones Creek is located in Brazoria County and lies 285 miles [458.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jones Creek that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazoria County community of Jones Creek.
Wharton County
This Jones Creek is located in Wharton County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km] to the west southwest of the Jones Creek that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wharton County community of Jones Creek.
Virginia
Martinsville City
This Jones Creek is located in Martinsville City and lies 773 miles [1,244 km]<1> to the northeast of the Jones Creek that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Martinsville City community of Jones Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jones Creek ...
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 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
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 Jones Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Jones Creek 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 984 miles [1,583.6 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Jones Creek 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 56 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 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,587 miles [12,210.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,463 miles [8,791.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Jones Creek) 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 Jones Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Jones Creek 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 Jones Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4127, Longitude: -91.0148 In this case, the coordinates for Jones Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.948 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.504 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.52 degrees.