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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 Myatt, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Myatt 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 Myatt:
    • 32.410425, -92.149858
    • 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 Myatt
  • 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 Ouachita Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ouachita Parish
    • Since Myatt is near Caldwell Parish and also Richland Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caldwell Parish
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richland 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 Myatt

Communities Also Named Myatt ...

We found one communities that are also named Myatt.

Within Louisiana, the name Myatt is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, there is another community also named Myatt in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Fulton 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 Arkansas community of Myatt [Fulton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Myatt ...

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.

  • Forest Oaks
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest Oaks is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Oaks
  • Garden Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Garden Park is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Park
  • Green Terrace
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Green Terrace is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Terrace
  • Kings Oaks
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kings Oaks is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Oaks
  • Lincoln Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Lincoln Park is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
  • Logtown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Logtown is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logtown
  • Luna
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Luna is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luna
  • Richwood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Richwood is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richwood
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,375 people
  • Robinson Place
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Robinson Place is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
  • Sunnybrook Farms
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sunnybrook Farms is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnybrook Farms
  • Tanglewood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Tanglewood is located in Ouachita Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood

How Far From Myatt 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 Myatt to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<2> community of Myatt once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Myatt and extending to:

  • Monroe, which is the Seat of Ouachita Parish, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 147 miles [236.6 km]<3> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Myatt to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 957 miles [1,540.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,824 miles [10,982.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,544 miles [12,140.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,419 miles [8,721 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 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 Myatt 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>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 Myatt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Myatt) 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 Myatt 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 Myatt. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.4104, Longitude: -92.1499       In this case, the coordinates for Myatt have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.878 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.853 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.691 degrees.