We found 35 communities that share the name Alton.
Within Nova Scotia, the name Alton is unique.
Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 35 communities, three are located in Canada and 34 are in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Alton is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,472 miles [2,369 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Alton.
Arkansas
Hempstead 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 Alton [Hempstead County].
California
Humboldt County
This Alton is located in Humboldt County and lies 3,022 miles [4,863.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humboldt County community of Alton.
Florida
Lafayette County
This Alton is located in Lafayette County and lies 1,498 miles [2,410.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lafayette County community of Alton.
Georgia
Milton 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 Georgia community of Alton [Milton County].
Tattnall 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 Georgia community of Alton [Tattnall County].
Idaho
Bear Lake County
This Alton is located in Bear Lake County and lies 2,361 miles [3,799.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bear Lake County community of Alton.
Illinois
Madison County
This Alton is located in Madison County and lies 1,437 miles [2,312.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Alton.
Indiana
Crawford County
This Alton is located in Crawford County and lies 1,282 miles [2,063.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Alton.
Iowa
Sioux County
This Alton is located in Sioux County and lies 1,618 miles [2,603.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sioux County community of Alton.
Kansas
Lyon 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 Alton [Lyon County].
Osborne County
This Alton is located in Osborne County and lies 1,846 miles [2,970.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Osborne County community of Alton.
Sumner 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 Alton [Sumner County].
Kentucky
Anderson County
This Alton is located in Anderson County and lies 1,214 miles [1,953.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Alton.
Louisiana
Concordia Parish
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 Louisiana community of Alton [Concordia Parish].
Saint Tammany Parish
This Alton is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 1,758 miles [2,829.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Alton.
Maine
Penobscot County
This Alton is located in Penobscot County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Penobscot County community of Alton.
Michigan
Delta County
This Alton is located in Delta County and lies 1,137 miles [1,829.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delta County community of Alton.
Kent County
This Alton is located in Kent County and lies 1,099 miles [1,768.7 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Alton.
Minnesota
Faribault 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 Minnesota community of Alton [Faribault County].
Missouri
Oregon County
This Alton is located in Oregon County and lies 1,568 miles [2,523.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oregon County community of Alton.
Montana
Glacier County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Glacier County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glacier County community of Alton.
New Hampshire
Belknap County
This Alton is located in Belknap County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Belknap County community of Alton.
New York
Wayne County
This Alton is located in Wayne County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Alton.
North Carolina
Union County
This Alton is located in Union County and lies 1,152 miles [1,854 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Alton.
North Dakota
Traill County
This Alton is located in Traill County and lies 1,604 miles [2,581.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Traill County community of Alton.
Ohio
Franklin County
This Alton is located in Franklin County and lies 1,069 miles [1,720.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Alton.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Alton.
Pennsylvania
McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Alton [McKean County].
Rhode Island
Washington County
This Alton is located in Washington County and lies 495 miles [796.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Alton.
Texas
Denton County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Denton County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Denton County community of Alton.
Hidalgo County
This Alton is located in Hidalgo County and lies 2,328 miles [3,746.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hidalgo County community of Alton.
Utah
Kane County
This Alton is located in Kane County and lies 2,565 miles [4,128 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kane County community of Alton.
Virginia
Halifax County
This Alton is located in Halifax County and lies 1,009 miles [1,623.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Alton.
West Virginia
Upshur County
This Alton is located in Upshur County and lies 970 miles [1,561.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Upshur County community of Alton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Alton ...
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.
Cloverdale (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cloverdale. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lanesville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
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 Alton to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Alton and extending to:
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 601 miles [967.2 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Alton to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 35 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,072 miles [8,162.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,778 miles [9,298.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,654 miles [5,880.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
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- Alton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1898, Longitude: -63.3033
<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 Alton, 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 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 Alton 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>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>
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.
<6>
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.
<7>
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 Alton to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 298.723 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 294.20 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 295.284 degrees.