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 Oakbrook:
30.373248, -91.078993
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 eight communities that are also named Oakbrook.
Within Louisiana, the name Oakbrook is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Newton County
This Oakbrook is located in Newton County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Oakbrook.
Kentucky
Boone County
This Oakbrook is located in Boone County and lies 697 miles [1,121.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boone County community of Oakbrook.
New York
Rockland County
This Oakbrook is located in Rockland County and lies 1,206 miles [1,940.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockland County community of Oakbrook.
Oregon
Wasco County
This Oakbrook is located in Wasco County and lies 1,912 miles [3,077.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wasco County community of Oakbrook.
Pennsylvania
Berks County
This Oakbrook is located in Berks County and lies 1,092 miles [1,757.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berks County community of Oakbrook.
South Carolina
Dorchester County
This Oakbrook is located in Dorchester County and lies 665 miles [1,070.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Oakbrook.
Washington
Pierce 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 Washington community of Oakbrook [Pierce County].
West Virginia
Wood County
This Oakbrook is located in Wood County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oakbrook that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Oakbrook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakbrook ...
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 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Airline Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Oakbrook to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oakbrook and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 989 miles [1,591.6 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Oakbrook 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 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,468 miles [8,799.9 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- Oakbrook) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Oakbrook 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 Oakbrook 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 Oakbrook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3732, Longitude: -91.0790 In this case, the coordinates for Oakbrook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.983 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.539 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.551 degrees.