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 Sherwood Manor:
30.442691, -91.030381
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 Sherwood Manor
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 five communities that are also named Sherwood Manor.
Within Louisiana, the name Sherwood Manor is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
Hartford County
This Sherwood Manor is located in Hartford County and lies 1,297 miles [2,087.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sherwood Manor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hartford County community of Sherwood Manor.
Maryland
Prince George's County
This Sherwood Manor is located in Prince George's County and lies 1,001 miles [1,611 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sherwood Manor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Sherwood Manor.
Wicomico County
This Sherwood Manor is located in Wicomico County and lies 1,036 miles [1,667.3 km] to the northeast of the Sherwood Manor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Sherwood Manor.
Minnesota
Benton County
This Sherwood Manor is located in Benton County and lies 1,057 miles [1,701.1 km]<1> to the north of the Sherwood Manor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Sherwood Manor.
Virginia
Albemarle County
This Sherwood Manor is located in Albemarle County and lies 883 miles [1,421.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sherwood Manor that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Sherwood Manor.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sherwood Manor ...
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 (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
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 Sherwood Manor to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sherwood Manor and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west (W).
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 Sherwood Manor to White House, with an average speed<2>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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
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).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,463 miles [8,791.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 from Point A (ie- Sherwood Manor) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Sherwood Manor 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 Sherwood Manor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4427, Longitude: -91.0304 In this case, the coordinates for Sherwood Manor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.961 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.523 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.522 degrees.