This Forks is located in Mendocino County and lies 2,902 miles [4,670.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mendocino County community of Forks.
Kentucky
Estill County
This Forks is located in Estill County and lies 1,104 miles [1,776.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
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Maine
Somerset County
This Forks is located in Somerset County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km]<1> to the west.
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New York
Cattaraugus 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 York community of Forks [Cattaraugus County].
Erie County
This Forks is located in Erie County and lies 684 miles [1,100.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Forks.
Ontario
This Forks lies 776 miles [1,248.9 km]<1> to the west.
Pennsylvania
Centre 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 Forks [Centre County].
Columbia 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 Pennsylvania community of Forks [Columbia County].
Washington
Clallam County
This Forks is located in Clallam County and lies 2,705 miles [4,353.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clallam County community of Forks.
Wyoming
Crook 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 Wyoming community of Forks [Crook County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near 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.
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 Forks to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Forks and extending to:
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 490 miles [788.6 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Forks to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 28 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,138 miles [8,268.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,851 miles [9,416.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,726 miles [5,996.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Forks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 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>
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.
<4>
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 Forks 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 Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.0500, Longitude: -65.5500
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 299.891 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 295.659 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 295.812 degrees.