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 Riverbend:
30.383248, -91.197052
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 Riverbend
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 twenty communities that are also named Riverbend.
Within Louisiana, the name Riverbend is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of twenty communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Bibb 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 Alabama community of Riverbend [Bibb County].
California
Fresno County
This Riverbend is located in Fresno County and lies 1,680 miles [2,703.7 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fresno County community of Riverbend.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Riverbend is located in Hillsborough County and lies 552 miles [888.4 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Riverbend.
Georgia
Carroll County
This Riverbend is located in Carroll County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Riverbend.
Hall County
This Riverbend is located in Hall County and lies 509 miles [819.2 km] to the northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Riverbend.
Irwin County
This Riverbend is located in Irwin County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km] to the east of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Irwin County community of Riverbend.
Newton County
This Riverbend is located in Newton County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km] to the east northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Riverbend.
Illinois
Will County
This Riverbend is located in Will County and lies 799 miles [1,285.9 km]<2> to the north of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Riverbend.
Montana
Mineral County
This Riverbend is located in Mineral County and lies 1,707 miles [2,747.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mineral County community of Riverbend.
North Carolina
Gaston 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 North Carolina community of Riverbend [Gaston County].
Rockingham County
This Riverbend is located in Rockingham County and lies 778 miles [1,252.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Riverbend.
Rutherford County
This Riverbend is located in Rutherford County and lies 628 miles [1,010.7 km] to the northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Riverbend.
Quebec
This Riverbend lies 1,620 miles [2,607.1 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Riverbend is located in Charleston County and lies 676 miles [1,087.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Riverbend.
Tennessee
Knox County
This Riverbend is located in Knox County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<2> to the northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Riverbend.
Rutherford County
This Riverbend is located in Rutherford County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km] to the north northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Riverbend.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Riverbend is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,358 miles [2,185.5 km]<2> to the northwest of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Riverbend.
Virginia
Chesapeake City
This Riverbend is located in Chesapeake City and lies 957 miles [1,540.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesapeake City community of Riverbend.
Washington
King County
This Riverbend is located in King County and lies 2,000 miles [3,218.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Riverbend that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Riverbend.
West Virginia
Kanawha 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 West Virginia community of Riverbend [Kanawha County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Riverbend ...
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.
College Park (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
College Park 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 Riverbend to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Riverbend and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the north northeast (NNE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 994 miles [1,599.7 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Riverbend 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 6,886 miles [11,081.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,596 miles [12,224.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,473 miles [8,807.9 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 Riverbend 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Riverbend) 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 Riverbend 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 Riverbend. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3832, Longitude: -91.1971 In this case, the coordinates for Riverbend have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.056 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.626 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.596 degrees.