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 Louisburg:
45.163723, -96.171029
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 Louisburg
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 county-by-county basis. We have selected Lac qui Parle County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Louisburg.
Within Minnesota, the name Louisburg is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kansas
Miami County
This Louisburg is located in Miami County and lies 457 miles [735.5 km]<1> to the south of the Louisburg that is located in Lac qui Parle County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami County community of Louisburg.
Montgomery 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 Kansas community of Louisburg [Montgomery County].
Missouri
Dallas County
This Louisburg is located in Dallas County and lies 534 miles [859.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Louisburg that is located in Lac qui Parle County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of Louisburg.
North Carolina
Franklin County
This Louisburg is located in Franklin County and lies 1,122 miles [1,805.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Louisburg that is located in Lac qui Parle County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Louisburg.
Wisconsin
Grant County
This Louisburg is located in Grant County and lies 331 miles [532.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Louisburg that is located in Lac qui Parle County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Louisburg.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Louisburg ...
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 Louisburg to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Louisburg and extending to:
Madison, which is the Seat of Lac qui Parle County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Louisburg to Madison, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,069 miles [1,720.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 42 days and walking would take 61 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,305 miles [10,146.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,064 miles [11,368.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,984 miles [8,021 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Louisburg) 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 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 Louisburg 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 county. 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Louisburg 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 Louisburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1637, Longitude: -96.1710 In this case, the coordinates for Louisburg have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.374 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.555 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.197 degrees.