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Communities Also Named Cross Roads ...

We found 56 communities that share the name Cross Roads.

Within Nova Scotia, the name Cross Roads is unique.

Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of another 56 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 56 communities, four are located in Canada and 53 are in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Clarke County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cross Roads [Clarke County].
    • Arkansas
      • Benton 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 Cross Roads [Benton County].
      • Bradley County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Bradley County and lies 1,680 miles [2,703.7 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Cross Roads.
      • Grant County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Grant County and lies 1,664 miles [2,677.9 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Cross Roads.
      • Hot Spring County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Hot Spring County and lies 1,704 miles [2,742.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hot Spring County community of Cross Roads.
      • Little River County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Little River County and lies 1,772 miles [2,851.8 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Little River County community of Cross Roads.
      • Logan County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cross Roads [Logan County].
      • Madison County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Madison County and lies 1,663 miles [2,676.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Cross Roads.
      • Monroe County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Monroe County and lies 1,594 miles [2,565.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Cross Roads.
      • Ouachita County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Ouachita County and lies 1,712 miles [2,755.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita County community of Cross Roads.
      • Washington County
      • This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cross Roads [Washington County].
    • California
      • San Bernardino County
      • This Cross Roads is located in San Bernardino County and lies 2,708 miles [4,358.1 km]<3> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Cross Roads.
    • Georgia
      • Hart County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Hart County and lies 1,242 miles [1,998.8 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hart County community of Cross Roads.
      • Paulding County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Paulding County and lies 1,333 miles [2,145.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Cross Roads.
    • Illinois
      • Johnson 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 Illinois community of Cross Roads [Johnson County].
    • Indiana
      • Delaware County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Delaware County and lies 1,129 miles [1,816.9 km]<3> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Cross Roads.
      • Ripley County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Ripley County and lies 1,142 miles [1,837.9 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ripley County community of Cross Roads.
    • Kentucky
      • Carter County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Carter County and lies 1,070 miles [1,722 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carter County community of Cross Roads.
    • Louisiana
      • Red River Parish
      • This Cross Roads is located in Red River Parish and lies 1,795 miles [2,888.8 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Red River Parish community of Cross Roads.
    • Maryland
      • Charles County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cross Roads [Charles County].
    • Mississippi
      • Noxubee 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 Mississippi community of Cross Roads [Noxubee County].
      • Rankin County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Rankin County and lies 1,630 miles [2,623.2 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rankin County community of Cross Roads.
      • Tishomingo County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Tishomingo County and lies 1,446 miles [2,327.1 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tishomingo County community of Cross Roads.
    • Missouri
      • Dade County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Dade County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dade County community of Cross Roads.
      • Douglas County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Douglas County and lies 1,585 miles [2,550.8 km]<3> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Cross Roads.
      • Ozark County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Ozark County and lies 1,560 miles [2,510.6 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ozark County community of Cross Roads.
      • Saint Francois County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Saint Francois County and lies 1,433 miles [2,306.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francois County community of Cross Roads.
      • Stone County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Stone County and lies 1,618 miles [2,603.9 km] to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stone County community of Cross Roads.
    • New Brunswick
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Cross Roads.
    • New York
      • Cayuga County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Cayuga County and lies 634 miles [1,020.3 km]<3> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cayuga County community of Cross Roads.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This Cross Roads lies 532 miles [856.2 km]<3> to the east northeast.
    • Oklahoma
      • Hughes County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Hughes County and lies 1,813 miles [2,917.7 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hughes County community of Cross Roads.
    • Pennsylvania
      • York County
      • This Cross Roads is located in York County and lies 729 miles [1,173.2 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Cross Roads.
    • Prince Edward Island
      • This Cross Roads lies 82 miles [132 km]<3> to the northeast.
    • South Carolina
      • Oconee County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Oconee County and lies 1,231 miles [1,981.1 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oconee County community of Cross Roads.
      • Richland County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Richland County and lies 1,182 miles [1,902.2 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Cross Roads.
    • Tennessee
      • Cannon County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Cannon County and lies 1,303 miles [2,097 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cannon County community of Cross Roads.
      • Carroll County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Carroll County and lies 1,409 miles [2,267.6 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Cross Roads.
      • DeKalb County
      • This Cross Roads is located in DeKalb County and lies 1,296 miles [2,085.7 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of Cross Roads.
      • Dyer County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Dyer County and lies 1,456 miles [2,343.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dyer County community of Cross Roads.
      • Macon County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Macon County and lies 1,282 miles [2,063.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Cross Roads.
      • Stewart County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Stewart County and lies 1,369 miles [2,203.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stewart County community of Cross Roads.
      • Warren County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cross Roads [Warren County].
    • Texas
      • Cherokee County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Cherokee County and lies 1,896 miles [3,051.3 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Cross Roads.
      • Comanche County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Comanche County and lies 1,918 miles [3,086.7 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Comanche County community of Cross Roads.
      • Denton County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Denton County and lies 1,917 miles [3,085.1 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Denton County community of Cross Roads.
      • Fisher County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Fisher County and lies 2,101 miles [3,381.2 km] to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fisher County community of Cross Roads.
      • Henderson County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Henderson County and lies 1,919 miles [3,088.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Cross Roads.
      • Leon County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Leon County and lies 1,958 miles [3,151.1 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Leon County community of Cross Roads.
      • Madison County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Madison County and lies 1,959 miles [3,152.7 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Cross Roads.
      • Navarro County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Navarro County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Navarro County community of Cross Roads.
      • Rusk County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Rusk County and lies 1,853 miles [2,982.1 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rusk County community of Cross Roads.
    • Virginia
      • Franklin County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Franklin County and lies 1,004 miles [1,615.8 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Cross Roads.
      • Halifax County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cross Roads [Halifax County].
      • Russell County
      • This Cross Roads is located in Russell County and lies 1,095 miles [1,762.2 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Russell County community of Cross Roads.
      • Shenandoah 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 Virginia community of Cross Roads [Shenandoah County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Cross Roads ...

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.

  • Diligent River
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diligent River came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diligent River
  • Fox River
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fox River. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox River
  • Gilbert Mountain
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gilbert Mountain came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert Mountain
  • Greenhill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Halfway River
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Moose River
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Beach
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Scots Bay
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scots Bay came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scots Bay
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Scots Bay <6>
  • Two Islands
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Two Islands came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Islands

How Far From Cross Roads 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 Cross Roads to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 549 miles [883.5 km]<3> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Cross Roads to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<7>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 32 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<8> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,109 miles [8,222.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,817 miles [9,361.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,693 miles [5,943.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<11>

The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.ca

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Cross Roads 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.
<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 Cross Roads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cross Roads) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cross Roads. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4208, Longitude: -64.3544    
<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>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.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>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.
<8>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 Cross Roads to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 299.307 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 294.892 degrees.
<11>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 295.638 degrees.









 

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