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Communities Also Named Guy ...

We found nine communities that share the name Guy.

Within Alberta, the name Guy is unique.

Beyond Alberta, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Faulkner County
      • This Guy is located in Faulkner County and lies 1,821 miles [2,930.6 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Faulkner County community of Guy.
    • Indiana
      • Howard County
      • This Guy is located in Howard County and lies 1,753 miles [2,821.2 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Guy.
    • Kentucky
      • Warren County
      • This Guy is located in Warren County and lies 1,904 miles [3,064.2 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Guy.
    • Louisiana
      • Allen Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Guy [Allen Parish].
      • Grant Parish
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Guy [Grant Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Atchison 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 Missouri community of Guy [Atchison County].
    • New Mexico
      • Union County
      • This Guy is located in Union County and lies 1,443 miles [2,322.3 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Guy.
    • Texas
      • Fort Bend County
      • This Guy is located in Fort Bend County and lies 2,091 miles [3,365.1 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fort Bend County community of Guy.
    • Washington
      • Whitman 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 Washington community of Guy [Whitman County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Guy ...

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.

  • Heart River
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heart River came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heart River
  • Kathleen
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kathleen
  • New Fish Creek
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Fish Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Fish Creek
  • Springburn
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springburn came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springburn
  • Sunset House
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunset House came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset House
  • Tangent
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tangent
  • Triangle
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle

How Far From Guy to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Guy to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Guy and extending to:

  • Edmonton, which is the Provincial Capital of Alberta, lies 200 miles [321.9 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Guy to Edmonton, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 1,914 miles [3,080.3 km] to the east (E). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 75 days and walking would take 109 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,181 miles [9,947.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,081 miles [8,177.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Guy. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Alberta: https://www.alberta.ca/

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Guy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Guy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 55.5500, Longitude: -117.1167    
<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Guy 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 . 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>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<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 Guy 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 336.766 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 338.23 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 323.266 degrees.




 

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