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39.302329, -76.648024
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We found 43 communities that share the name Fulton.
There is one other community in Maryland which is also named Fulton.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 41 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Located In Maryland ...
Howard County
This Fulton is located in Howard County and lies 18 miles [29 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Fulton.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Clarke County
This Fulton is located in Clarke County and lies 809 miles [1,302 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Fulton.
Arizona
Coconino 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 Arizona community of Fulton [Coconino County].
Arkansas
Hempstead County
This Fulton is located in Hempstead County and lies 1,028 miles [1,654.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hempstead County community of Fulton.
California
Sonoma County
This Fulton is located in Sonoma County and lies 2,451 miles [3,944.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sonoma County community of Fulton.
Florida
Duval County
This Fulton is located in Duval County and lies 673 miles [1,083.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of Fulton.
Hillsborough County
This Fulton is located in Hillsborough County and lies 849 miles [1,366.3 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Fulton.
Illinois
Whiteside County
This Fulton is located in Whiteside County and lies 729 miles [1,173.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whiteside County community of Fulton.
Indiana
Fulton County
This Fulton is located in Fulton County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Fulton.
Iowa
Jackson County
This Fulton is located in Jackson County and lies 759 miles [1,221.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Fulton.
Kansas
Bourbon County
This Fulton is located in Bourbon County and lies 976 miles [1,570.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bourbon County community of Fulton.
Finney 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 Fulton [Finney County].
Kentucky
Fulton County
This Fulton is located in Fulton County and lies 693 miles [1,115.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Fulton.
Louisiana
Beauregard Parish
This Fulton is located in Beauregard Parish and lies 1,113 miles [1,791.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beauregard Parish community of Fulton.
Manitoba
This Fulton lies 1,293 miles [2,080.9 km]<1> to the northwest.
Michigan
Kalamazoo County
This Fulton is located in Kalamazoo County and lies 494 miles [795 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalamazoo County community of Fulton.
Keweenaw County
This Fulton is located in Keweenaw County and lies 805 miles [1,295.5 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Keweenaw County community of Fulton.
Mississippi
Itawamba County
This Fulton is located in Itawamba County and lies 736 miles [1,184.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Itawamba County community of Fulton.
Missouri
Callaway County
This Fulton is located in Callaway County and lies 819 miles [1,318.1 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Callaway County community of Fulton.
Montana
Lewis and Clark 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 Montana community of Fulton [Lewis and Clark County].
Nebraska
Colfax County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Colfax County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colfax County community of Fulton.
New Mexico
San Miguel 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 New Mexico community of Fulton [San Miguel County].
New York
Oswego County
This Fulton is located in Oswego County and lies 277 miles [445.8 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oswego County community of Fulton.
North Carolina
Davie County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fulton [Davie County].
Ohio
Belmont County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Belmont County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Belmont County community of Fulton.
Hamilton County
This Fulton is located in Hamilton County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Fulton.
Morrow County
This Fulton is located in Morrow County and lies 337 miles [542.3 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morrow County community of Fulton.
Oklahoma
Beaver 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 Oklahoma community of Fulton [Beaver County].
Ontario
This Fulton lies 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the north northwest.
Oregon
Multnomah County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fulton [Multnomah County].
Umatilla County
This Fulton is located in Umatilla County and lies 2,162 miles [3,479.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Umatilla County community of Fulton.
Washington 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 Oregon community of Fulton [Washington County].
Pennsylvania
Northumberland 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 Pennsylvania community of Fulton [Northumberland County].
Westmoreland County
This Fulton is located in Westmoreland County and lies 176 miles [283.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westmoreland County community of Fulton.
South Carolina
Clarendon 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 South Carolina community of Fulton [Clarendon County].
Marlboro County
This Fulton is located in Marlboro County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marlboro County community of Fulton.
South Dakota
Hanson County
This Fulton is located in Hanson County and lies 1,133 miles [1,823.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hanson County community of Fulton.
Tennessee
Lauderdale County
This Fulton is located in Lauderdale County and lies 767 miles [1,234.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Fulton.
Texas
Aransas County
This Fulton is located in Aransas County and lies 1,399 miles [2,251.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aransas County community of Fulton.
Virginia
Richmond City
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 Virginia community of Fulton [Richmond City].
Washington
Lewis 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 Fulton [Lewis County].
West Virginia
Ohio County
This Fulton is located in Ohio County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ohio County community of Fulton.
Wisconsin
Rock County
This Fulton is located in Rock County and lies 692 miles [1,113.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rock County community of Fulton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fulton ...
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.
Asylum ‑ Historic (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Asylum have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Fulton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fulton and extending to:
Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 23 miles [37 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Fulton to Annapolis, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days 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 34 miles [54.7 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 most of two days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,864 miles [9,437.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,570 miles [10,573.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,446 miles [7,155.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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 from Point A (ie- Fulton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fulton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3023, Longitude: -76.6480 In this case, the coordinates for Fulton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Fulton 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>
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 Fulton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Fulton 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 307.633 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.21 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.392 degrees.