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 Sharp:
30.472690, -91.057604
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 sixteen communities that are also named Sharp.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named Sharp.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Rapides Parish
This Sharp is located in Rapides Parish and lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rapides Parish community of Sharp.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Pickens 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 Alabama community of Sharp [Pickens County].
Arkansas
Independence County
This Sharp is located in Independence County and lies 369 miles [593.8 km]<1> to the north of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Independence County community of Sharp.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Sharp is located in Aroostook County and lies 1,653 miles [2,660.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Sharp.
Mississippi
Tishomingo 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 Mississippi community of Sharp [Tishomingo County].
Missouri
Ozark County
This Sharp is located in Ozark County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<1> to the north of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ozark County community of Sharp.
Nevada
Nye County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Nye County, we don't know where within the parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nye County community of Sharp.
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Sharp is located in Burlington County and lies 1,131 miles [1,820.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Sharp.
North Carolina
Iredell County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sharp [Iredell County].
Rockingham 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 North Carolina community of Sharp [Rockingham County].
Ohio
Franklin County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sharp [Franklin County].
South Carolina
Richland County
This Sharp is located in Richland County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Sharp.
Tennessee
Lawrence 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 Tennessee community of Sharp [Lawrence County].
Texas
Milam County
This Sharp is located in Milam County and lies 362 miles [582.6 km]<1> to the west of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milam County community of Sharp.
Utah
Juab County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Sharp [Juab County].
Salt Lake County
This Sharp is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,363 miles [2,193.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sharp that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Sharp.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sharp ...
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 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
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 Sharp to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sharp 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 Sharp to White House, with an average speed<4>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<5> 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).<6>
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).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,462 miles [8,790.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Sharp) 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 Sharp 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 Sharp, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Sharp 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 Sharp. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4727, Longitude: -91.0576 In this case, the coordinates for Sharp have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.982 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.551 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.528 degrees.