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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Longacre, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Longacre and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Longacre:
- 30.816861, -93.150437
- 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 Longacre
- 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 Beauregard Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Beauregard Parish
- Since Longacre is near Vernon Parish and also Allen Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Vernon Parish
- Open the eBird sighting report for Allen Parish
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Longacre
Communities Also Named Longacre ...
We found two communities that are also named Longacre.
Within Louisiana, the name Longacre is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
- Schuylkill County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Longacre [Schuylkill County].
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- This Longacre is located in Fayette County and lies 842 miles [1,355.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Longacre that is located in Beauregard Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Longacre.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Longacre ...
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.
- Bannister ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bannister is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannister
- Bon Ami
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bon Ami is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bon Ami
- Bundick ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bundick is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bundick
- Carson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Carson is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
- Dry Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Ikes
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Ikes is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ikes
- Kipling
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Kipling is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kipling
- Rosepine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Sugartown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sweetville ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sweetville is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetville
How Far From Longacre to ...
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 Longacre to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Longacre and extending to:
- DeRidder, which is the Seat of Beauregard Parish, lies just to the West Northwest.
- Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Longacre to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,067 miles [1,717.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 42 days and walking would take 61 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,662 miles [12,330.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,537 miles [8,910.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Longacre 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. |
| <2> | 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 from Point A (ie- Longacre) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Longacre 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 Longacre. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.8169, Longitude: -93.1504 In this case, the coordinates for Longacre have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.323 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.164 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.325 degrees. |
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