Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Southport, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Southport and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Southport
- 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 Southport:
- 29.962426, -90.142852
- 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 Southport
- 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 Jefferson Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Jefferson Parish
- Since Southport is near Orleans Parish and also Saint Bernard Parish, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Orleans Parish
- eBird sighting report for Saint Bernard Parish
- 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 Southport ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Southport.
Within Louisiana, the name Southport is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Marion County
- This Southport is located in Marion County and lies 707 miles [1,137.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Southport.
- Owen County
- This Southport is located in Owen County and lies 671 miles [1,079.9 km] to the north northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Southport.
- Maine
- Manitoba
- This Southport lies 1,441 miles [2,319.1 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- Michigan
- New York
- Chemung County
- This Southport is located in Chemung County and lies 1,115 miles [1,794.4 km]<2> to the northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chemung County community of Southport.
- Suffolk County
- This Southport is located in Suffolk County and lies 1,241 miles [1,997.2 km] to the northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Southport.
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- This Southport lies 2,290 miles [3,685.4 km]<2> to the northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Prince Edward Island
- This Southport lies 1,833 miles [2,949.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Southport that is located in Jefferson Parish.
- Tennessee
- Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southport ...
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.
- Bucktown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north) - Garden District
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden District have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden District
- Garden District is located in Orleans Parish
- Greenville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
- Greenville is located in Orleans Parish
- Harvey
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey
- Harvey is located in Jefferson Parish
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harvey <4>
- Indian Beach
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Beach
- Indian Beach is located in Jefferson Parish
- Kennedy Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kennedy Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy Heights
- Kennedy Heights is located in Jefferson Parish
- Lakeview
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Little Farms ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Farms have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Farms
- Little Farms is located in Jefferson Parish
- Pricetown ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Spanish Fort
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spanish Fort have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Fort
- Spanish Fort is located in Orleans Parish
- Storyville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Storyville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storyville
- Storyville is located in Orleans Parish
- Walkertown
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walkertown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkertown
- Walkertown is located in Jefferson Parish
- Walnut Street Ferry
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walnut Street Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Street Ferry
- Walnut Street Ferry is located in Orleans Parish
How Far From Southport to ...
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 Southport to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southport and extending to:
- Gretna, which is the Seat of Jefferson Parish, lies just to the East Southeast.
- Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 69 miles [111 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Southport to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 966 miles [1,554.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,863 miles [11,044.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,568 miles [12,179.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,446 miles [8,764.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Southport. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Jefferson Parish: www.jeffparish.net/
The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.gov/
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 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 Southport 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Southport) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Southport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.9624, Longitude: -90.1429 In this case, the coordinates for Southport have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Southport 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 315.367 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.766 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.245 degrees. |