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Communities Also Named Three Forks ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Three Forks.

Within British Columbia, the name Three Forks is unique.

Beyond British Columbia, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Lauderdale County
      • This Three Forks is located in Lauderdale County and lies 1,817 miles [2,924.2 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Three Forks.
      • Madison County
      • This Three Forks is located in Madison County and lies 1,867 miles [3,004.6 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Three Forks.
      • Tuscaloosa County
      • This Three Forks is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 1,894 miles [3,048.1 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Three Forks.
    • Arizona
      • Apache County
      • This Three Forks is located in Apache County and lies 1,186 miles [1,908.7 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Apache County community of Three Forks.
    • Arkansas
      • Crittenden County
      • This Three Forks is located in Crittenden County and lies 1,682 miles [2,706.9 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crittenden County community of Three Forks.
    • Colorado
      • Conejos County
      • This Three Forks is located in Conejos County and lies 1,025 miles [1,649.6 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Conejos County community of Three Forks.
    • Georgia
      • Fannin County
      • This Three Forks is located in Fannin County and lies 1,970 miles [3,170.4 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fannin County community of Three Forks.
      • Rabun County
      • This Three Forks is located in Rabun County and lies 1,996 miles [3,212.3 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rabun County community of Three Forks.
    • Idaho
      • Owyhee County
      • This Three Forks is located in Owyhee County and lies 550 miles [885.1 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owyhee County community of Three Forks.
    • Kentucky
      • Garrard County
      • This Three Forks is located in Garrard County and lies 1,817 miles [2,924.2 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garrard County community of Three Forks.
      • Warren County
      • This Three Forks is located in Warren County and lies 1,780 miles [2,864.6 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Three Forks.
    • Montana
      • Cascade County
      • This Three Forks is located in Cascade County and lies 339 miles [545.6 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cascade County community of Three Forks.
      • Flathead County
      • This Three Forks is located in Flathead County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km] to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Flathead County community of Three Forks.
      • Gallatin County
      • This Three Forks is located in Gallatin County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km] to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gallatin County community of Three Forks.
    • New Mexico
      • Eddy County
      • This Three Forks is located in Eddy County and lies 1,377 miles [2,216.1 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Eddy County community of Three Forks.
    • North Carolina
      • Swain County
      • This Three Forks is located in Swain County and lies 1,963 miles [3,159.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Swain County community of Three Forks.
    • Ohio
      • Noble County
      • This Three Forks is located in Noble County and lies 1,867 miles [3,004.6 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Noble County community of Three Forks.
    • Oregon
      • Grant County
      • This Three Forks is located in Grant County and lies 410 miles [659.8 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Three Forks.
    • Tennessee
      • Franklin County
      • This Three Forks is located in Franklin County and lies 1,872 miles [3,012.7 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Three Forks.
      • Scott County
      • This Three Forks is located in Scott County and lies 1,872 miles [3,012.7 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of Three Forks.
    • Utah
      • Garfield County
      • This Three Forks is located in Garfield County and lies 895 miles [1,440.4 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garfield County community of Three Forks.
      • Utah County
      • This Three Forks is located in Utah County and lies 743 miles [1,195.7 km] to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Utah County community of Three Forks.
      • Wasatch County
      • This Three Forks is located in Wasatch County and lies 758 miles [1,219.9 km] to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wasatch County community of Three Forks.
    • Virginia
      • Campbell County
      • This Three Forks is located in Campbell County and lies 2,075 miles [3,339.4 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Three Forks.
      • Scott County
      • This Three Forks is located in Scott County and lies 1,937 miles [3,117.3 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of Three Forks.
    • West Virginia
      • Logan 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 West Virginia community of Three Forks [Logan County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon County
      • This Three Forks is located in Carbon County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carbon County community of Three Forks.
      • Uinta County
      • This Three Forks is located in Uinta County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km] to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Uinta County community of Three Forks.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Three Forks ...

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.

  • Box Lake
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Box Lake came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Lake
  • Cody ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cody
  • Crescent Bay
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crescent Bay came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Bay
  • Fry Creek
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fry Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fry Creek
  • Hills
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hills came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills
  • Longbeach
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longbeach
    • Former names for Longbeach:
    • Hallets Landing
    • Thirteen (13) Mile
    • Longbeach has also been known as:
    • Thirteen (13) Mile
  • Marblehead
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marblehead came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marblehead
  • Meadow Creek
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Creek
  • Mirror Lake
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mirror Lake came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirror Lake
  • Poplar Creek
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poplar Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Creek
  • Queens Bay
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Queens Bay came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queens Bay

How Far From Three Forks to ...

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 Three Forks to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<4> community of Three Forks once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Three Forks and extending to:

  • Victoria, which is the Provincial Capital of British Columbia, lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Three Forks to Victoria, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 17 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 12 days.
  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 1,931 miles [3,107.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 76 days and walking would take 110 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,535 miles [10,517.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,301 miles [11,749.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,393 miles [8,679.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Three Forks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Three Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 50.0128, Longitude: -117.2851    
<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 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 Three Forks 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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Three Forks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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.
<6>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 Three Forks to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.824 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 337.903 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.206 degrees.




 

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