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Communities Also Named Fairbanks ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Fairbanks.

Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the name Fairbanks is unique.

Beyond Newfoundland and Labrador, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • This Fairbanks lies 3,286 miles [5,288.3 km]<1> to the northwest.
    • Arkansas
      • Van Buren County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Van Buren County and lies 2,115 miles [3,403.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Buren County community of Fairbanks.
    • California
      • El Dorado County
      • This Fairbanks is located in El Dorado County and lies 3,236 miles [5,207.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Dorado County community of Fairbanks.
    • Florida
      • Alachua County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Alachua County and lies 1,983 miles [3,191.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alachua County community of Fairbanks.
    • Georgia
      • Floyd 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 Georgia community of Fairbanks [Floyd County].
    • Illinois
      • Moultrie County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Moultrie County and lies 1,775 miles [2,856.6 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moultrie County community of Fairbanks.
    • Indiana
      • Sullivan County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Sullivan County and lies 1,750 miles [2,816.4 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Fairbanks.
    • Kentucky
      • Graves County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Graves County and lies 1,906 miles [3,067.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Graves County community of Fairbanks.
      • Owen County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Owen County and lies 1,660 miles [2,671.5 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Fairbanks.
    • Louisiana
      • Ouachita Parish
      • This Fairbanks is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 2,231 miles [3,590.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Fairbanks.
    • Maine
      • Franklin County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Franklin County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Fairbanks.
    • Michigan
      • Kalkaska 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 Michigan community of Fairbanks [Kalkaska County].
      • Oakland 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 Michigan community of Fairbanks [Oakland County].
      • Otsego 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 Michigan community of Fairbanks [Otsego County].
    • Minnesota
      • Saint Louis County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Saint Louis County and lies 1,691 miles [2,721.4 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Fairbanks.
    • New Mexico
      • Chaves County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Chaves County and lies 2,746 miles [4,419.3 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chaves County community of Fairbanks.
    • Oregon
      • Wasco County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Wasco County and lies 2,996 miles [4,821.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wasco County community of Fairbanks.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Westmoreland County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Westmoreland County and lies 1,351 miles [2,174.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westmoreland County community of Fairbanks.
    • South Carolina
      • Lexington 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 Fairbanks [Lexington County].
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Harris County and lies 2,513 miles [4,044.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Fairbanks.
    • Vermont
      • Caledonia County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Caledonia County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caledonia County community of Fairbanks.
    • Washington
      • Whitman County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Whitman County and lies 2,785 miles [4,482 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whitman County community of Fairbanks.
    • West Virginia
      • Braxton County
      • This Fairbanks is located in Braxton County and lies 1,476 miles [2,375.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Braxton County community of Fairbanks.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairbanks ...

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.

  • Black Duck Cove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Duck Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Duck Cove
  • Burnt Cove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burnt Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Cove
  • Hillgrade
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Indian Cove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Cove
  • Kettle Cove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kettle Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kettle Cove
  • Lobster Harbour
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lobster Harbour came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobster Harbour
  • Manuels Cove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manuels Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manuels Cove
  • Salt Pans
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salt Pans came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Pans
  • Seal Cove ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Tilt Cove
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tilt Cove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilt Cove
  • Virgin Arm ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Virgin Arm came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgin Arm

How Far From Fairbanks to ...

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 1,014 miles [1,631.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Fairbanks to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 58 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 40 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 4,582 miles [7,374 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,296 miles [8,523.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,172 miles [5,104.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

The official website for Province of Newfoundland and Labrador: https://www.gov.nl.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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fairbanks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fairbanks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 49.5536, Longitude: -54.7400    
<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 Fairbanks 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 Fairbanks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<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 Fairbanks 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 291.879 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 287.543 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 287.301 degrees.




 

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