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 River Oaks:
30.461024, -91.015659
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 River Oaks
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 22 communities that are also named River Oaks.
There are three communities within Louisiana that are also named River Oaks.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Caddo Parish
This River Oaks is located in Caddo Parish and lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caddo Parish community of River Oaks.
Ouachita Parish
This River Oaks is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of River Oaks.
Saint Tammany Parish
This River Oaks is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<1> to the east of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of River Oaks.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Colbert County
This River Oaks is located in Colbert County and lies 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colbert County community of River Oaks.
California
San Benito County
This River Oaks is located in San Benito County and lies 1,804 miles [2,903.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Benito County community of River Oaks.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This River Oaks is located in Hillsborough County and lies 549 miles [883.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of River Oaks.
Georgia
Camden County
This River Oaks is located in Camden County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of River Oaks.
Chatham County
This River Oaks is located in Chatham County and lies 603 miles [970.4 km] to the east northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chatham County community of River Oaks.
Cherokee County
This River Oaks is located in Cherokee County and lies 457 miles [735.5 km] to the northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of River Oaks.
Illinois
Will County
This River Oaks is located in Will County and lies 793 miles [1,276.2 km]<1> to the north of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of River Oaks.
Indiana
LaGrange County
This River Oaks is located in LaGrange County and lies 837 miles [1,347 km]<1> to the north northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaGrange County community of River Oaks.
South Carolina
Spartanburg County
This River Oaks is located in Spartanburg County and lies 613 miles [986.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of River Oaks.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This River Oaks is located in Hamilton County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of River Oaks.
Shelby County
This River Oaks is located in Shelby County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km] to the north of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of River Oaks.
Texas
Brazos County
Although located in Brazos County, we don't know the location within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazos County community of River Oaks.
Dallas County
This River Oaks is located in Dallas County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of River Oaks.
Harris 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 Texas community of River Oaks [Harris County].
Tarrant County
This River Oaks is located in Tarrant County and lies 407 miles [655 km] to the west northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tarrant County community of River Oaks.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This River Oaks is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,363 miles [2,193.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of River Oaks.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This River Oaks is located in Fairfax County and lies 978 miles [1,573.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of River Oaks.
Goochland County
This River Oaks is located in Goochland County and lies 906 miles [1,458.1 km] to the northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of River Oaks.
Norfolk City
This River Oaks is located in Norfolk City and lies 957 miles [1,540.1 km] to the east northeast of the River Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk City community of River Oaks.
Curious and Interesting Names Near River Oaks ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as River Oaks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in River Oaks and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from River Oaks 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 6,875 miles [11,064.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,585 miles [12,206.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,461 miles [8,788.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- River Oaks) 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 River Oaks 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 River Oaks 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 River Oaks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4610, Longitude: -91.0157 In this case, the coordinates for River Oaks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.955 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.518 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.513 degrees.