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 Moreland:
30.432136, -91.150106
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 eighteen communities that are also named Moreland.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named Moreland.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Rapides Parish
This Moreland is located in Rapides Parish and lies 92 miles [148.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rapides Parish community of Moreland.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Winston County
This Moreland is located in Winston County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winston County community of Moreland.
Arizona
Yavapai County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Yavapai County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yavapai County community of Moreland.
Arkansas
Pope County
This Moreland is located in Pope County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pope County community of Moreland.
California
Santa Clara 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 California community of Moreland [Santa Clara County].
Georgia
Coweta County
This Moreland is located in Coweta County and lies 422 miles [679.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coweta County community of Moreland.
Idaho
Bingham County
This Moreland is located in Bingham County and lies 1,464 miles [2,356.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bingham County community of Moreland.
Illinois
Cook County
This Moreland is located in Cook County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Moreland.
Kentucky
Lincoln County
This Moreland is located in Lincoln County and lies 608 miles [978.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Moreland.
New York
Schuyler County
This Moreland is located in Schuyler County and lies 1,136 miles [1,828.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuyler County community of Moreland.
Ohio
Stark County
This Moreland is located in Stark County and lies 900 miles [1,448.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Moreland.
Wayne County
This Moreland is located in Wayne County and lies 877 miles [1,411.4 km] to the north northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Moreland.
Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
This Moreland is located in Lycoming County and lies 1,097 miles [1,765.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lycoming County community of Moreland.
Saskatchewan
This Moreland lies 1,504 miles [2,420.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
South Carolina
Berkeley County
This Moreland is located in Berkeley County and lies 684 miles [1,100.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Moreland.
Charleston County
This Moreland is located in Charleston County and lies 676 miles [1,087.9 km] to the east northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Moreland.
Texas
Navarro 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 Texas community of Moreland [Navarro County].
Virginia
Stafford County
This Moreland is located in Stafford County and lies 952 miles [1,532.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Moreland that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Moreland.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Moreland ...
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.
College Park (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
College Park is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Moreland to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Moreland and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 990 miles [1,593.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Moreland 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 57 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 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,468 miles [8,799.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Moreland) 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 Moreland, 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 Moreland 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 Moreland 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 Moreland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4321, Longitude: -91.1501 In this case, the coordinates for Moreland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.033 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.606 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.571 degrees.