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Communities Also Named Fairmont ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Fairmont.

Within Nova Scotia, the name Fairmont is unique.

Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 29 communities, .

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • This Fairmont lies 2,454 miles [3,949.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • This Fairmont is located in Los Angeles County and lies 3,005 miles [4,836.1 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Fairmont.
    • Florida
      • Duval 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 Florida community of Fairmont [Duval County].
    • Illinois
      • Madison County
      • This Fairmont is located in Madison County and lies 1,507 miles [2,425.3 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Fairmont.
      • Will County
      • This Fairmont is located in Will County and lies 1,328 miles [2,137.2 km] to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Fairmont.
    • Kansas
      • Riley County
      • This Fairmont is located in Riley County and lies 1,803 miles [2,901.6 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Riley County community of Fairmont.
    • Kentucky
      • Webster County
      • This Fairmont is located in Webster County and lies 1,444 miles [2,323.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Fairmont.
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • This Fairmont is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 1,882 miles [3,028.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Fairmont.
      • Grant Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Fairmont [Grant Parish].
    • Maryland
      • Harford County
      • This Fairmont is located in Harford County and lies 843 miles [1,356.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Fairmont.
    • Minnesota
      • Martin County
      • This Fairmont is located in Martin County and lies 1,590 miles [2,558.9 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Martin County community of Fairmont.
    • Missouri
      • Clark County
      • This Fairmont is located in Clark County and lies 1,546 miles [2,488 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Fairmont.
    • Nebraska
      • Fillmore County
      • This Fairmont is located in Fillmore County and lies 1,811 miles [2,914.5 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fillmore County community of Fairmont.
    • North Carolina
      • Davidson 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 North Carolina community of Fairmont [Davidson County].
      • Robeson County
      • This Fairmont is located in Robeson County and lies 1,186 miles [1,908.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Robeson County community of Fairmont.
      • Wake County
      • This Fairmont is located in Wake County and lies 1,105 miles [1,778.3 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Fairmont.
    • Ohio
      • Guernsey County
      • This Fairmont is located in Guernsey County and lies 1,062 miles [1,709.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Fairmont.
    • Oklahoma
      • Garfield County
      • This Fairmont is located in Garfield County and lies 1,950 miles [3,138.2 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garfield County community of Fairmont.
    • Ontario
      • This Fairmont lies 964 miles [1,551.4 km]<1> to the west.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Fayette County
      • This Fairmont is located in Fayette County and lies 966 miles [1,554.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Fairmont.
      • Westmoreland 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 Fairmont [Westmoreland County].
    • South Carolina
      • Spartanburg County
      • This Fairmont is located in Spartanburg County and lies 1,287 miles [2,071.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Fairmont.
    • Tennessee
      • Hamilton 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 Tennessee community of Fairmont [Hamilton County].
      • Rutherford County
      • This Fairmont is located in Rutherford County and lies 1,435 miles [2,309.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Fairmont.
    • Texas
      • Floyd County
      • This Fairmont is located in Floyd County and lies 2,187 miles [3,519.6 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Fairmont.
    • Utah
      • Weber County
      • This Fairmont is located in Weber County and lies 2,479 miles [3,989.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Fairmont.
    • Washington
      • Jefferson County
      • This Fairmont is located in Jefferson County and lies 2,803 miles [4,511 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Fairmont.
      • Snohomish County
      • This Fairmont is located in Snohomish County and lies 2,779 miles [4,472.4 km] to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Fairmont.
    • West Virginia
      • Marion County
      • This Fairmont is located in Marion County and lies 1,015 miles [1,633.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Fairmont.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairmont ...

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.

  • Big Marsh
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Big Marsh. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Marsh
  • Cloverville
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cloverville came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverville
  • Clydesdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Clydesdale. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clydesdale
  • Harbour Centre
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Jimtown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jimtown came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
  • Mahoneys Beach
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mahoneys Beach came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahoneys Beach
  • Maryvale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maryvale came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maryvale
  • Williams Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams Point came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Point

How Far From Fairmont to ...

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 Fairmont to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 662 miles [1,065.4 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Fairmont to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 38 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 26 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 4,999 miles [8,045.1 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 5,705 miles [9,181.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,581 miles [5,763.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fairmont) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fairmont. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6975, Longitude: -61.9792    
<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 Fairmont 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>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.
<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 Fairmont 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 297.777 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 293.245 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 294.286 degrees.




 

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