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 Quail Hollow:
30.359915, -91.076215
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 25 communities that share the name Quail Hollow.
Within Louisiana, the name Quail Hollow is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Tuolumne County
This Quail Hollow is located in Tuolumne County and lies 1,745 miles [2,808.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuolumne County community of Quail Hollow.
Georgia
Camden County
This Quail Hollow is located in Camden County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km]<1> to the east of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Quail Hollow.
Fayette County
This Quail Hollow is located in Fayette County and lies 441 miles [709.7 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Quail Hollow.
Richmond County
This Quail Hollow is located in Richmond County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Quail Hollow.
Maryland
Talbot County
This Quail Hollow is located in Talbot County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talbot County community of Quail Hollow.
North Carolina
Alamance County
This Quail Hollow is located in Alamance County and lies 777 miles [1,250.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Quail Hollow.
Forsyth County
This Quail Hollow is located in Forsyth County and lies 746 miles [1,200.6 km] to the northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Quail Hollow.
Henderson County
This Quail Hollow is located in Henderson County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km] to the northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Quail Hollow.
Mecklenburg County
This Quail Hollow is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 677 miles [1,089.5 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Quail Hollow.
Nash County
This Quail Hollow is located in Nash County and lies 855 miles [1,376 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nash County community of Quail Hollow.
Wake County
This Quail Hollow is located in Wake County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Quail Hollow.
Wilson County
This Quail Hollow is located in Wilson County and lies 844 miles [1,358.3 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Quail Hollow.
Ohio
Wood County
This Quail Hollow is located in Wood County and lies 866 miles [1,393.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Quail Hollow.
South Carolina
Aiken County
This Quail Hollow is located in Aiken County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of Quail Hollow.
Anderson County
This Quail Hollow is located in Anderson County and lies 570 miles [917.3 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Quail Hollow.
Cherokee County
This Quail Hollow is located in Cherokee County and lies 635 miles [1,021.9 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Quail Hollow.
Chester County
This Quail Hollow is located in Chester County and lies 649 miles [1,044.5 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of Quail Hollow.
Darlington County
This Quail Hollow is located in Darlington County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Quail Hollow.
Lexington County
This Quail Hollow is located in Lexington County and lies 634 miles [1,020.3 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lexington County community of Quail Hollow.
Spartanburg County
This Quail Hollow is located in Spartanburg County and lies 622 miles [1,001 km] to the east northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Quail Hollow.
Tennessee
Hamblen County
This Quail Hollow is located in Hamblen County and lies 600 miles [965.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Quail Hollow.
Hamilton County
This Quail Hollow is located in Hamilton County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km] to the northeast of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Quail Hollow.
Texas
Harris County
This Quail Hollow is located in Harris County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km]<1> to the west of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Quail Hollow.
Utah
Davis County
This Quail Hollow is located in Davis County and lies 1,378 miles [2,217.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Quail Hollow.
Salt Lake County
This Quail Hollow is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,358 miles [2,185.5 km] to the northwest of the Quail Hollow that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Quail Hollow.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Quail Hollow ...
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.
Bayou Paul (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bayou Paul have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Quail Hollow to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Quail Hollow 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 Quail Hollow 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 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,469 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Quail Hollow) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Quail Hollow. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3599, Longitude: -91.0762 In this case, the coordinates for Quail Hollow have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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.
<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 Quail Hollow to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.98 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.534 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.552 degrees.