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 Oak Hills:
30.362693, -91.087882
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 Oak Hills
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 twenty communities that are also named Oak Hills.
Within Louisiana, the name Oak Hills is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of twenty communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Oak Hills is located in Jefferson County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Oak Hills.
British Columbia
This Oak Hills lies 2,058 miles [3,312 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
California
Monterey County
This Oak Hills is located in Monterey County and lies 1,808 miles [2,909.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monterey County community of Oak Hills.
San Bernardino County
This Oak Hills is located in San Bernardino County and lies 1,551 miles [2,496.1 km] to the west northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Oak Hills.
Georgia
Fayette County
This Oak Hills is located in Fayette County and lies 443 miles [712.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Oak Hills.
Illinois
Saint Clair County
This Oak Hills is located in Saint Clair County and lies 574 miles [923.8 km]<1> to the north of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Clair County community of Oak Hills.
Indiana
Bartholomew County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Oak Hills [Bartholomew County].
North Carolina
Orange County
This Oak Hills is located in Orange County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Oak Hills.
Rockingham County
This Oak Hills is located in Rockingham County and lies 774 miles [1,245.6 km] to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Oak Hills.
Oregon
Washington County
This Oak Hills is located in Washington County and lies 2,002 miles [3,221.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Oak Hills.
Pennsylvania
Butler County
This Oak Hills is located in Butler County and lies 955 miles [1,536.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Oak Hills.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Oak Hills is located in Greenville County and lies 590 miles [949.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Oak Hills.
Tennessee
Greene County
This Oak Hills is located in Greene County and lies 623 miles [1,002.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Oak Hills.
Hamilton County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oak Hills [Hamilton County].
Roane County
This Oak Hills is located in Roane County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km] to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Oak Hills.
Texas
Bexar County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oak Hills [Bexar County].
Utah
Davis County
This Oak Hills is located in Davis County and lies 1,368 miles [2,201.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Oak Hills.
Weber County
This Oak Hills is located in Weber County and lies 1,381 miles [2,222.5 km] to the northwest of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Oak Hills.
Virginia
Mecklenburg County
This Oak Hills is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 839 miles [1,350.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Oak Hills.
Pittsylvania County
This Oak Hills is located in Pittsylvania County and lies 794 miles [1,277.8 km] to the northeast of the Oak Hills that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pittsylvania County community of Oak Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Hills ...
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, 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 Oak Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Hills 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 Oak Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,883 miles [11,077.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,593 miles [12,219.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,469 miles [8,801.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Oak Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Oak Hills 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Oak Hills 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 Oak Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3627, Longitude: -91.0879 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.987 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.543 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.556 degrees.