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 Youngsville:
30.101995, -91.990580
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 Youngsville
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 Lafayette Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Youngsville.
Within Louisiana, the name Youngsville is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kansas
Greeley County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Youngsville [Greeley County].
New Mexico
Rio Arriba County
This Youngsville is located in Rio Arriba County and lies 939 miles [1,511.2 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rio Arriba County community of Youngsville.
New York
Sullivan County
This Youngsville is located in Sullivan County and lies 1,247 miles [2,006.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Youngsville.
North Carolina
Franklin County
This Youngsville is located in Franklin County and lies 881 miles [1,417.8 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Youngsville.
Ohio
Adams County
This Youngsville is located in Adams County and lies 774 miles [1,245.6 km]<2> to the northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Youngsville.
Ontario
This Youngsville lies 1,090 miles [1,754.2 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
Pennsylvania
Northampton County
This Youngsville is located in Northampton County and lies 1,182 miles [1,902.2 km]<2> to the northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Youngsville.
Warren County
This Youngsville is located in Warren County and lies 1,074 miles [1,728.4 km] to the northeast of the Youngsville that is located in Lafayette Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Youngsville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Youngsville ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Youngsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Youngsville and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 55 miles [88.5 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could walk a straight line from Youngsville to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,043 miles [1,678.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take over two days, a buggy would take 41 days and walking would take 60 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,933 miles [11,157.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,645 miles [12,303.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,521 miles [8,885.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Youngsville 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.
<2>
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 from Point A (ie- Youngsville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Youngsville 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 Youngsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.1020, Longitude: -91.9906
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.51 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.118 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.948 degrees.