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 Woodlawn Estates:
30.394081, -91.023436
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 Woodlawn Estates
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 five communities that are also named Woodlawn Estates.
Within Louisiana, the name Woodlawn Estates is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Lonoke County
This Woodlawn Estates is located in Lonoke County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<1> to the north of the Woodlawn Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lonoke County community of Woodlawn Estates.
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Woodlawn Estates is located in Muscogee County and lies 387 miles [622.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Woodlawn Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Woodlawn Estates.
Nebraska
Lancaster County
This Woodlawn Estates is located in Lancaster County and lies 788 miles [1,268.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Woodlawn Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Woodlawn Estates.
New Jersey
Ocean County
This Woodlawn Estates is located in Ocean County and lies 1,153 miles [1,855.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Woodlawn Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Woodlawn Estates.
Tennessee
Montgomery County
This Woodlawn Estates is located in Montgomery County and lies 473 miles [761.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Woodlawn Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Woodlawn Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodlawn Estates ...
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 northwest)
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 Woodlawn Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Woodlawn Estates 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 986 miles [1,586.8 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Woodlawn Estates 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 6,879 miles [11,070.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,588 miles [12,211.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,465 miles [8,795.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Woodlawn Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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 Woodlawn Estates 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 Woodlawn Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3941, Longitude: -91.0234 In this case, the coordinates for Woodlawn Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.951 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.505 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.526 degrees.