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 Windsor Place:
30.466301, -91.040104
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 Windsor Place
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 six communities that are also named Windsor Place.
There is one other community in Louisiana that is also named Windsor Place.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Louisiana ...
Saint Tammany Parish
This Windsor Place is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the east of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Windsor Place.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Missouri
Cooper County
This Windsor Place is located in Cooper County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<1> to the north of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cooper County community of Windsor Place.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Windsor Place is located in Anderson County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Windsor Place.
Charleston County
This Windsor Place is located in Charleston County and lies 671 miles [1,079.9 km] to the east northeast of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Windsor Place.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Windsor Place is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,362 miles [2,191.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Windsor Place.
Virginia
Henrico County
This Windsor Place is located in Henrico County and lies 920 miles [1,480.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Windsor Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henrico County community of Windsor Place.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Windsor Place ...
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 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Airline Acres is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Windsor Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Windsor Place and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 983 miles [1,582 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Windsor Place 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 56 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 6,876 miles [11,065.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,586 miles [12,208.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,462 miles [8,790.2 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Windsor Place) 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 Windsor Place 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 Windsor Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4663, Longitude: -91.0401 In this case, the coordinates for Windsor Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.97 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.537 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.522 degrees.