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 Tara:
30.437413, -91.093994
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 ten communities that are also named Tara.
Within Louisiana, the name Tara is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Madison County
This Tara is located in Madison County and lies 392 miles [630.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Tara.
Georgia
Bibb County
This Tara is located in Bibb County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Tara.
Muscogee County
This Tara is located in Muscogee County and lies 389 miles [626 km] to the east northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Tara.
Iowa
Webster County
This Tara is located in Webster County and lies 851 miles [1,369.6 km]<1> to the north of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Tara.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Tara is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 1,007 miles [1,620.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Tara.
Cecil County
This Tara is located in Cecil County and lies 1,073 miles [1,726.8 km] to the northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cecil County community of Tara.
Missouri
Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Tara [Saint Louis County].
North Dakota
Steele 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 Dakota community of Tara [Steele County].
Ontario
This Tara lies 1,110 miles [1,786.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Tara is located in Arlington County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Tara that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Tara.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Tara ...
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 (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
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 Tara to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Tara and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west northwest (WNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Tara to White House, with an average speed<3>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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,879 miles [11,070.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,589 miles [12,213.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,466 miles [8,796.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Tara) 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 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 Tara 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>
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.
<4>
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 Tara 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 Tara. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4374, Longitude: -91.0940 In this case, the coordinates for Tara have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.00 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.567 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.548 degrees.