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 Sweetbriar:
30.409081, -91.141217
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 Sweetbriar
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 seven communities that are also named Sweetbriar.
Within Louisiana, the name Sweetbriar is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Shasta County
This Sweetbriar is located in Shasta County and lies 1,884 miles [3,032 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of Sweetbriar.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Sweetbriar is located in Clayton County and lies 455 miles [732.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Sweetbriar.
Columbia County
This Sweetbriar is located in Columbia County and lies 570 miles [917.3 km] to the east northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Sweetbriar.
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Sweetbriar is located in Hamilton County and lies 721 miles [1,160.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Sweetbriar.
Ohio
Stark County
This Sweetbriar is located in Stark County and lies 902 miles [1,451.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Sweetbriar.
South Carolina
Dorchester County
This Sweetbriar is located in Dorchester County and lies 664 miles [1,068.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Sweetbriar.
Florence County
This Sweetbriar is located in Florence County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km] to the east northeast of the Sweetbriar that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Florence County community of Sweetbriar.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sweetbriar ...
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.
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 Sweetbriar to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sweetbriar and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 990 miles [1,593.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Sweetbriar 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 57 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 6,883 miles [11,077.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,593 miles [12,219.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,469 miles [8,801.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sweetbriar) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Sweetbriar 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 Sweetbriar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4091, Longitude: -91.1412 In this case, the coordinates for Sweetbriar have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.025 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.593 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.57 degrees.