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 Whispering Oaks:
30.556855, -91.108161
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 nine communities that share the name Whispering Oaks.
Within Louisiana, the name Whispering Oaks is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Jefferson County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Whispering Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Whispering Oaks.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Hillsborough County and lies 545 miles [877.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Whispering Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Whispering Oaks.
Illinois
Lake 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 Illinois community of Whispering Oaks [Lake County].
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 685 miles [1,102.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Whispering Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Whispering Oaks.
Ohio
Stark County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Stark County and lies 888 miles [1,429.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Whispering Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Whispering Oaks.
Texas
Bexar 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 Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Bexar County].
Harris County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Harris County].
Rains County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Rains County].
Utah
Weber County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Weber County and lies 1,371 miles [2,206.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Whispering Oaks that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Whispering Oaks.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whispering Oaks ...
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.
Buffwood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Whispering Oaks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whispering Oaks and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the south southwest (SSW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Whispering Oaks to White House, with an average speed<4>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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,874 miles [11,062.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,585 miles [12,206.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,461 miles [8,788.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Whispering Oaks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whispering Oaks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5569, Longitude: -91.1082 In this case, the coordinates for Whispering Oaks 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 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 Whispering Oaks 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 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.
<5>
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 Whispering Oaks to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.022 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.61 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.536 degrees.