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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 Merryville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Merryville 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 Merryville:
- 30.754115, -93.540648
- 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 Merryville
- 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 Merryville is near Newton County and also Vernon Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Newton County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Vernon 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 Merryville
Communities Also Named Merryville ...
We found one communities that are also named Merryville.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named Merryville.
Beyond Louisiana.
- Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Calcasieu Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Merryville [Calcasieu Parish].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Merryville ...
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.
- Carson
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Carson is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
- Howards
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Howards is located in Newton County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howards
- Hughes ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Junction is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction
- Knight
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Knight is located in Vernon Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knight
- Mystic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Mystic is located in Beauregard Parish
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic
- Quicksand
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Quicksand is located in Newton County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quicksand
- Sandjack
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Sandjack is located in Newton County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandjack
- Singer
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Stringtown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Stringtown is located in Newton County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
How Far From Merryville to ...
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 town such as Merryville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Merryville and extending to:
- DeRidder, which is the Seat of Beauregard Parish, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Merryville to DeRidder, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
- Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 143 miles [230.1 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,088 miles [1,751 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 43 days and walking would take 62 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,963 miles [11,205.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,682 miles [12,363 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,557 miles [8,943.1 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 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 Merryville 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Merryville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Merryville 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 Merryville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.7541, Longitude: -93.5406 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.562 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.435 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.494 degrees. |
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