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 Oakcrest:
30.479357, -91.094272
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 eleven communities that are also named Oakcrest.
Within Louisiana, the name Oakcrest is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Marion 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 Florida community of Oakcrest [Marion County].
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Oakcrest is located in Bulloch County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Oakcrest.
Illinois
Clark County
This Oakcrest is located in Clark County and lies 643 miles [1,034.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Oakcrest.
Indiana
Bartholomew 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 Indiana community of Oakcrest [Bartholomew County].
North Carolina
New Hanover County
This Oakcrest is located in New Hanover County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Hanover County community of Oakcrest.
Ohio
Clark County
This Oakcrest is located in Clark County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Oakcrest.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Oakcrest is located in Charleston County and lies 672 miles [1,081.5 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Oakcrest.
Utah
Davis County
This Oakcrest is located in Davis County and lies 1,362 miles [2,191.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Oakcrest.
Salt Lake County
This Oakcrest is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,354 miles [2,179.1 km] to the northwest of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Oakcrest.
Virginia
Alexandria City
This Oakcrest is located in Alexandria City and lies 980 miles [1,577.2 km]<2> to the northeast of the Oakcrest that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alexandria City community of Oakcrest.
Arlington 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 Oakcrest [Arlington County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakcrest ...
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 Oakcrest to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oakcrest and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west southwest (WSW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 985 miles [1,585.2 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Oakcrest 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 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,587 miles [12,210.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,464 miles [8,793.5 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 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 Oakcrest 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oakcrest) 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 Oakcrest 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 Oakcrest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4794, Longitude: -91.0943 In this case, the coordinates for Oakcrest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.005 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.579 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.542 degrees.