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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Southern Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Southern Hills and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Southern Hills:
    • 32.394600, -93.793514
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Southern Hills
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Southern Hills ...

We found five communities that share the name Southern Hills.

Within Louisiana, the name Southern Hills is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Jackson County
      • This Southern Hills is located in Jackson County and lies 448 miles [721 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Southern Hills that is located in Caddo Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Southern Hills.
    • Ohio
      • Clark 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 Ohio community of Southern Hills [Clark County].
      • Montgomery County
      • This Southern Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 736 miles [1,184.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Southern Hills that is located in Caddo Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Southern Hills.
    • Tennessee
      • Maury County
      • This Southern Hills is located in Maury County and lies 445 miles [716.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southern Hills that is located in Caddo Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Southern Hills.
    • Virginia
      • Roanoke City
      • This Southern Hills is located in Roanoke City and lies 851 miles [1,369.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southern Hills that is located in Caddo Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of Southern Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Southern Hills ...

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.

  • Cedar Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Cedar Grove is located in Caddo Parish
  • Cut-off Junction
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cut-off Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cut-off Junction
    • Cut-off Junction is located in Caddo Parish
  • Deep Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deep Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Woods
    • Deep Woods is located in Caddo Parish
  • Forest Oak
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Oak have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Oak
    • Forest Oak is located in Caddo Parish
  • Hickory Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hickory Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Place
    • Hickory Place is located in Caddo Parish
  • Holly Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holly Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Hill
    • Holly Hill is located in Caddo Parish
  • Keithville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keithville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keithville
    • Keithville is located in Caddo Parish
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Keithville <4>
  • King Forest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for King Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Forest
    • King Forest is located in Caddo Parish
  • Quail Ridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quail Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
    • Quail Ridge is located in Caddo Parish
  • Silver Pine Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Pine Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Pine Village
    • Silver Pine Village is located in Caddo Parish
  • Staples
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Staples have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Staples
    • Staples is located in Caddo Parish
  • Steeple Chase
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steeple Chase have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steeple Chase
    • Steeple Chase is located in Caddo Parish
  • Summer Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer Grove
    • Summer Grove is located in Caddo Parish

How Far From Southern Hills to ...

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 Southern Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southern Hills and extending to:

  • Shreveport, which is the Seat of Caddo Parish, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 205 miles [329.9 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Southern Hills to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,039 miles [1,672.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 41 days and walking would take 59 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,889 miles [11,086.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,614 miles [12,253.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,490 miles [8,835.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Southern Hills. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Caddo Parish: www.caddo.org/

The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.gov/

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Southern Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Southern Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.3946, Longitude: -93.7935       In this case, the coordinates for Southern Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Southern Hills 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Southern Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.924 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.073 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.39 degrees.




 

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