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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 Saint James:
30.418247, -91.093438
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 Saint James
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 nineteen communities that are also named Saint James.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named Saint James.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of eighteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Saint James Parish
This Saint James is located in Saint James Parish and lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint James Parish community of Saint James.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Stone County
This Saint James is located in Stone County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the north of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stone County community of Saint James.
California
Orange 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 California community of Saint James [Orange County].
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Saint James is located in Hillsborough County and lies 536 miles [862.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Saint James.
Illinois
Fayette County
This Saint James is located in Fayette County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km]<1> to the north of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Saint James.
Indiana
Gibson County
This Saint James is located in Gibson County and lies 571 miles [918.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gibson County community of Saint James.
Manitoba
This Saint James lies 1,382 miles [2,224.1 km]<1> to the north of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Maryland
Saint Mary's County
This Saint James is located in Saint Mary's County and lies 993 miles [1,598.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary's County community of Saint James.
Washington County
This Saint James is located in Washington County and lies 981 miles [1,578.8 km] to the northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Saint James.
Worcester 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 Maryland community of Saint James [Worcester County].
Michigan
Charlevoix County
This Saint James is located in Charlevoix County and lies 1,100 miles [1,770.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charlevoix County community of Saint James.
Minnesota
Watonwan County
This Saint James is located in Watonwan County and lies 956 miles [1,538.5 km]<1> to the north of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Watonwan County community of Saint James.
Missouri
Phelps County
This Saint James is located in Phelps County and lies 524 miles [843.3 km]<1> to the north of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Phelps County community of Saint James.
Nebraska
Cedar County
This Saint James is located in Cedar County and lies 913 miles [1,469.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cedar County community of Saint James.
New York
Suffolk County
This Saint James is located in Suffolk County and lies 1,234 miles [1,985.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Saint James.
North Carolina
Brunswick County
This Saint James is located in Brunswick County and lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Saint James.
Ohio
Morrow County
This Saint James is located in Morrow County and lies 845 miles [1,359.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morrow County community of Saint James.
Tennessee
Greene County
This Saint James is located in Greene County and lies 608 miles [978.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Saint James.
Texas
Gonzales County
This Saint James is located in Gonzales County and lies 393 miles [632.5 km]<1> to the west of the Saint James that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gonzales County community of Saint James.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Saint James ...
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.
Airline Acres (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Airline Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Saint James to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Saint James and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west northwest (WNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 988 miles [1,590 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Saint James 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 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,590 miles [12,214.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,467 miles [8,798.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Saint James) 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 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 Saint James 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 Saint James 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 Saint James. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4182, Longitude: -91.0934 In this case, the coordinates for Saint James have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.997 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.562 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.55 degrees.