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We found 39 communities that are also named Canton.
There is one other community in Maryland that is also named Canton.
Beyond Maryland, we know of 38 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 38 communities, 37 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Located In Maryland ...
Wicomico County
This Canton is located in Wicomico County and lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Canton.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Sharp County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Canton [Sharp County].
California
El Dorado County
This community is historic<2> and although located in El Dorado County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Dorado County community of Canton.
Colorado
Weld County
This Canton is located in Weld County and lies 1,469 miles [2,364.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weld County community of Canton.
Connecticut
Hartford County
This Canton is located in Hartford County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hartford County community of Canton.
Georgia
Cherokee County
This Canton is located in Cherokee County and lies 559 miles [899.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Canton.
Illinois
Fulton County
This Canton is located in Fulton County and lies 718 miles [1,155.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Canton.
Indiana
Washington County
This Canton is located in Washington County and lies 510 miles [820.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Canton.
Iowa
Jackson County
This Canton is located in Jackson County and lies 774 miles [1,245.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Canton.
Kansas
Anderson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Canton [Anderson County].
McPherson County
This Canton is located in McPherson County and lies 1,121 miles [1,804.1 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McPherson County community of Canton.
Riley County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Canton [Riley County].
Kentucky
Trigg County
This Canton is located in Trigg County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trigg County community of Canton.
Louisiana
Allen Parish
This Canton is located in Allen Parish and lies 1,088 miles [1,751 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen Parish community of Canton.
Calcasieu Parish
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Canton [Calcasieu Parish].
Maine
Oxford County
This Canton is located in Oxford County and lies 479 miles [770.9 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oxford County community of Canton.
Massachusetts
Norfolk County
This Canton is located in Norfolk County and lies 346 miles [556.8 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk County community of Canton.
Michigan
Wayne County
This Canton is located in Wayne County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Canton.
Minnesota
Fillmore County
This Canton is located in Fillmore County and lies 846 miles [1,361.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fillmore County community of Canton.
Mississippi
Madison County
This Canton is located in Madison County and lies 881 miles [1,417.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Canton.
Missouri
Lewis County
This Canton is located in Lewis County and lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Canton.
Montana
Broadwater County
This Canton is located in Broadwater County and lies 1,819 miles [2,927.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Broadwater County community of Canton.
Nebraska
Sioux County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Canton [Sioux County].
New Brunswick
This Canton lies 701 miles [1,128.2 km]<1> to the northeast.
New Jersey
Salem County
This Canton is located in Salem County and lies 62 miles [99.8 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salem County community of Canton.
New Mexico
DeBaca County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Canton [DeBaca County].
New York
Saint Lawrence County
This Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Lawrence County community of Canton.
North Carolina
Haywood County
This Canton is located in Haywood County and lies 430 miles [692 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Haywood County community of Canton.
Ohio
Stark County
This Canton is located in Stark County and lies 275 miles [442.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Canton.
Oklahoma
Blaine County
This Canton is located in Blaine County and lies 1,220 miles [1,963.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blaine County community of Canton.
Ontario
This Canton lies 338 miles [544 km]<1> to the north northwest.
Pennsylvania
Bradford County
This Canton is located in Bradford County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradford County community of Canton.
South Dakota
Lincoln County
This Canton is located in Lincoln County and lies 1,072 miles [1,725.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Canton.
Texas
Van Zandt County
This Canton is located in Van Zandt County and lies 1,171 miles [1,884.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Zandt County community of Canton.
Virginia
Scott County
This Canton is located in Scott County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of Canton.
Washington
King County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Canton [King County].
West Virginia
Doddridge County
This Canton is located in Doddridge County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Doddridge County community of Canton.
Marion County
This Canton is located in Marion County and lies 188 miles [302.6 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Canton.
Wisconsin
Barron County
This Canton is located in Barron County and lies 877 miles [1,411.4 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barron County community of Canton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Canton ...
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.
Charles Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
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 Canton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Canton and extending to:
Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Canton to Annapolis, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 36 miles [57.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,861 miles [9,432.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,567 miles [10,568.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,444 miles [7,151.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Canton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Canton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Canton 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.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Canton 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 Canton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2804, Longitude: -76.5666 In this case, the coordinates for Canton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.586 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.153 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.366 degrees.