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Communities Also Named The Halfway ...

We found 24 communities that share the name The Halfway.

There is one other community in Nova Scotia which is also named The Halfway.

Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 23 communities, four are located in Canada and twenty are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Nova Scotia ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Clark County
      • This The Halfway is located in Clark County and lies 1,666 miles [2,681.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of The Halfway.
    • Colorado
      • Park County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Park County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Park County community of The Halfway.
    • Georgia
      • Lumpkin 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 The Halfway [Lumpkin County].
    • Idaho
      • Kootenai 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 Idaho community of The Halfway [Kootenai County].
    • Kentucky
      • Allen County
      • This The Halfway is located in Allen County and lies 1,234 miles [1,985.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of The Halfway.
      • Barren County
      • This The Halfway is located in Barren County and lies 1,199 miles [1,929.6 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barren County community of The Halfway.
    • Louisiana
      • Red River Parish
      • This The Halfway is located in Red River Parish and lies 1,749 miles [2,814.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Red River Parish community of The Halfway.
    • Maine
      • Somerset 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 Maine community of The Halfway [Somerset County].
    • Manitoba
      • We haven't found the location of this community yet.
    • Maryland
      • Washington County
      • This The Halfway is located in Washington County and lies 737 miles [1,186.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of The Halfway.
    • Missouri
      • Polk County
      • This The Halfway is located in Polk County and lies 1,538 miles [2,475.2 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of The Halfway.
    • New Brunswick
      • This The Halfway lies 229 miles [368.5 km]<1> to the north northwest.
    • New Mexico
      • Lea County
      • This The Halfway is located in Lea County and lies 2,226 miles [3,582.4 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lea County community of The Halfway.
    • New York
      • Onondaga County
      • This The Halfway is located in Onondaga County and lies 578 miles [930.2 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onondaga County community of The Halfway.
    • Ontario
      • This The Halfway lies 617 miles [993 km]<1> to the west.
    • Oregon
      • Baker County
      • This The Halfway is located in Baker County and lies 2,511 miles [4,041.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baker County community of The Halfway.
      • Union 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 Oregon community of The Halfway [Union County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lebanon 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 The Halfway [Lebanon County].
    • Tennessee
      • Cumberland County
      • This The Halfway is located in Cumberland County and lies 1,194 miles [1,921.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of The Halfway.
    • Texas
      • Hale County
      • This The Halfway is located in Hale County and lies 2,078 miles [3,344.2 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hale County community of The Halfway.
    • Virginia
      • Fauquier County
      • This The Halfway is located in Fauquier County and lies 764 miles [1,229.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fauquier County community of The Halfway.
    • West Virginia
      • Monroe 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 West Virginia community of The Halfway [Monroe County].
    • Wyoming
      • Sublette County
      • This The Halfway is located in Sublette County and lies 2,238 miles [3,601.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sublette County community of The Halfway.

Curious and Interesting Names Near The Halfway ...

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.

  • Blanket Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blanket Hill came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanket Hill
  • Cherryfield
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherryfield came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherryfield
  • Crossburn
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crossburn came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossburn
  • Harmony Mills
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harmony Mills came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Mills
  • Joe Simon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joe Simon came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joe Simon
  • Long Lake
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Long Lake. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
  • New Germany
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Germany came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Germany
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Germany <6>
  • Peters Stillwater
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peters Stillwater came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters Stillwater
  • Pleasant River
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pleasant River. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant River
  • Round Lake
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Round Lake came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Lake
  • Squirreltown
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squirreltown came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squirreltown
  • Wildcat Lake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wildcat Lake came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildcat Lake

How Far From The Halfway 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 The Halfway to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 526 miles [846.5 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from The Halfway 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 30 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 21 days.
  • The shortest distance<8> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,164 miles [8,310.7 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 5,869 miles [9,445.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,746 miles [6,028.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<11>

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- The Halfway) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in The Halfway. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5872, Longitude: -64.9789    
<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 The Halfway, 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 The Halfway 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>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 The Halfway 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 299.89 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 295.387 degrees.
<11>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 296.485 degrees.




 

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