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 Valley:
30.432969, -91.098994
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 Valley
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 twelve communities that are also named Oak Valley.
Within Louisiana, the name Oak Valley is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Ventura 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 California community of Oak Valley [Ventura County].
Yuba County
This Oak Valley is located in Yuba County and lies 1,795 miles [2,888.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yuba County community of Oak Valley.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Oak Valley is located in Hillsborough County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Oak Valley.
Illinois
Will County
This Oak Valley is located in Will County and lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Oak Valley.
Kansas
Elk County
This Oak Valley is located in Elk County and lies 553 miles [890 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elk County community of Oak Valley.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Oak Valley is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,036 miles [1,667.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Oak Valley.
New Jersey
Gloucester County
This Oak Valley is located in Gloucester County and lies 1,105 miles [1,778.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Oak Valley.
Ontario
This Oak Valley lies 1,318 miles [2,121.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Rhode Island
Providence County
This Oak Valley is located in Providence County and lies 1,341 miles [2,158.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Providence County community of Oak Valley.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Oak Valley is located in Rutherford County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Oak Valley.
Texas
Navarro County
This Oak Valley is located in Navarro County and lies 338 miles [544 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Oak Valley that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Navarro County community of Oak Valley.
Virginia
Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Oak Valley [Fairfax County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Valley ...
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.
Airline Acres (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Airline Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Valley and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west northwest (WNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Oak Valley 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 56 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 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,590 miles [12,214.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,466 miles [8,796.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 Oak Valley 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>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oak Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Valley 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 Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4330, Longitude: -91.0990 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.002 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.57 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.55 degrees.