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 Lincoln Heights:
30.569077, -91.192608
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 25 communities that share the name Lincoln Heights.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Lincoln Heights.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Vernon Parish
This Lincoln Heights is located in Vernon Parish and lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vernon Parish community of Lincoln Heights.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Los Angeles County and lies 1,589 miles [2,557.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Lincoln Heights.
Florida
Seminole County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Seminole County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the east of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Seminole County community of Lincoln Heights.
Georgia
Dougherty County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Dougherty County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<1> to the east of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Lincoln Heights.
Douglas County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Douglas County and lies 436 miles [701.7 km] to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Lincoln Heights.
Wilkes County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Wilkes County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km] to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilkes County community of Lincoln Heights.
Illinois
Lee County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Lee County and lies 784 miles [1,261.7 km]<1> to the north of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Lincoln Heights.
Indiana
Clark 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 Indiana community of Lincoln Heights [Clark County].
Madison 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 Indiana community of Lincoln Heights [Madison County].
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 1,012 miles [1,628.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Lincoln Heights.
Wicomico County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Wicomico County and lies 1,036 miles [1,667.3 km] to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Lincoln Heights.
Massachusetts
Norfolk County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Norfolk County and lies 1,378 miles [2,217.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk County community of Lincoln Heights.
North Carolina
Guilford County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Guilford County and lies 759 miles [1,221.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Lincoln Heights.
Rowan County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Rowan County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km] to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rowan County community of Lincoln Heights.
Scotland County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Scotland County and lies 741 miles [1,192.5 km] to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scotland County community of Lincoln Heights.
Wilson County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Wilson County and lies 844 miles [1,358.3 km] to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Lincoln Heights.
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Hamilton County and lies 709 miles [1,141 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Lincoln Heights.
Jefferson County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 898 miles [1,445.2 km] to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Lincoln Heights.
Meigs County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Meigs County and lies 780 miles [1,255.3 km] to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Meigs County community of Lincoln Heights.
Richland County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Richland County and lies 856 miles [1,377.6 km] to the north northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Lincoln Heights.
Stark County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Stark County and lies 893 miles [1,437.1 km] to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Lincoln Heights.
Ontario
This Lincoln Heights lies 1,317 miles [2,119.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Pennsylvania
Berks 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 Lincoln Heights [Berks County].
Westmoreland County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Westmoreland County and lies 934 miles [1,503.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westmoreland County community of Lincoln Heights.
Virginia
Greensville County
This Lincoln Heights is located in Greensville County and lies 888 miles [1,429.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lincoln Heights that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greensville County community of Lincoln Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lincoln Heights ...
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 (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airline Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Lincoln Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lincoln Heights and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
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 Lincoln Heights 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- Lincoln Heights) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lincoln Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5691, Longitude: -91.1926 In this case, the coordinates for Lincoln Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Lincoln Heights 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Lincoln Heights to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.076 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.673 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.568 degrees.