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Communities Also Named Kings Park ...

We found eight communities that share the name Kings Park.

Within Manitoba, the name Kings Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Kings 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 California community of Kings Park [Kings County].
    • Georgia
      • Bibb County
      • This Kings Park is located in Bibb County and lies 1,406 miles [2,262.7 km]<2> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Kings Park.
    • Illinois
      • Will County
      • This Kings Park is located in Will County and lies 750 miles [1,207 km]<2> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Kings Park.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Kings Park is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,248 miles [2,008.5 km]<2> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Kings Park.
    • Minnesota
      • Olmsted 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 Minnesota community of Kings Park [Olmsted County].
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • This Kings Park is located in Suffolk County and lies 1,318 miles [2,121.1 km]<2> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Kings Park.
    • South Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • This Kings Park is located in Cherokee County and lies 1,322 miles [2,127.6 km]<2> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Kings Park.
    • Virginia
      • Fairfax County
      • This Kings Park is located in Fairfax County and lies 1,261 miles [2,029.4 km]<2> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Kings Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Kings Park ...

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.

How Far From Kings Park to ...

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

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

  • Winnipeg, which is the Provincial Capital of Manitoba, lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<2> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Kings Park to Winnipeg, with an average speed<4> 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 National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 1,042 miles [1,676.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,035 miles [9,712.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,801 miles [10,945.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,759 miles [7,658.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>

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

The official website for Province of Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/

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 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 Kings Park 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.
<2>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 from Point A (ie- Kings Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kings Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 50.6623, Longitude: -96.9857    
<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 Kings Park 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 320.936 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 319.896 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.223 degrees.




 

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