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 Pasadena:
30.487967, -91.073438
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 nine communities that share the name Pasadena.
Within Louisiana, the name Pasadena is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Pasadena is located in Los Angeles County and lies 1,594 miles [2,565.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Pasadena.
Florida
Pasco 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 Florida community of Pasadena [Pasco County].
Pinellas County
This Pasadena is located in Pinellas County and lies 536 miles [862.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pinellas County community of Pasadena.
Kansas
Finney 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 Kansas community of Pasadena [Finney County].
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Pasadena is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 1,012 miles [1,628.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Pasadena.
New Jersey
Ocean County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Ocean County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Pasadena.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Pasadena lies 2,161 miles [3,477.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Ohio
Montgomery County
This Pasadena is located in Montgomery County and lies 746 miles [1,200.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Pasadena.
Texas
Harris County
This Pasadena is located in Harris County and lies 250 miles [402.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pasadena that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Pasadena.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pasadena ...
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 (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Oaks have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Pasadena to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pasadena 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 984 miles [1,583.6 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Pasadena to White House, with an average speed<5>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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,876 miles [11,065.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,586 miles [12,208.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,462 miles [8,790.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Pasadena) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pasadena. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4880, Longitude: -91.0734 In this case, the coordinates for Pasadena have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Pasadena 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>
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 Pasadena, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Pasadena to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.993 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.566 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.532 degrees.