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 Morgan Place:
30.546021, -91.045937
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 Morgan Place
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 three communities that are also named Morgan Place.
Within Louisiana, the name Morgan Place is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Franklin County
This Morgan Place is located in Franklin County and lies 376 miles [605.1 km]<1> to the east of the Morgan Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Morgan Place.
Idaho
Owyhee County
This Morgan Place is located in Owyhee County and lies 1,632 miles [2,626.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Morgan Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owyhee County community of Morgan Place.
Ohio
Montgomery County
This Morgan Place is located in Montgomery County and lies 747 miles [1,202.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Morgan Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Morgan Place.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Morgan Place ...
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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Morgan Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Morgan Place and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the Seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Morgan Place to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest (SW). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 980 miles [1,577.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 39 days and walking would take 56 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,872 miles [11,059.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,582 miles [12,202 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,459 miles [8,785.4 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 from Point A (ie- Morgan Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Morgan Place 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 Morgan Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5460, Longitude: -91.0459 In this case, the coordinates for Morgan Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.983 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.562 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.513 degrees.