We found nine communities that are also named Ironville.
There is one other community in Nova Scotia that is also named Ironville.
Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of eight communities that are located in Canada and the United States. Of these eight communities, one is located in Canada and the other eight communities are located in the United States.
This Ironville is located in Perry County and lies 1,690 miles [2,719.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perry County community of Ironville.
Kentucky
Boyd County
This Ironville is located in Boyd County and lies 1,247 miles [2,006.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boyd County community of Ironville.
New York
Essex County
This Ironville is located in Essex County and lies 655 miles [1,054.1 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of Ironville.
Ohio
Lucas County
This Ironville is located in Lucas County and lies 1,181 miles [1,900.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lucas County community of Ironville.
Pennsylvania
Blair County
This Ironville is located in Blair County and lies 965 miles [1,553 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blair County community of Ironville.
Lancaster County
This Ironville is located in Lancaster County and lies 907 miles [1,459.7 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Ironville.
Tennessee
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 Tennessee community of Ironville [Johnson County].
Virginia
Bedford 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 Virginia community of Ironville [Bedford County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ironville ...
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.
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 Ironville to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ironville and extending to:
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 734 miles [1,181.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Ironville to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<4>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 42 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 29 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 4,920 miles [7,918 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,626 miles [9,054.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,502 miles [5,635.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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- Ironville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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 Ironville, 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Ironville 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.
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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.
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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 Ironville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ironville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.1353, Longitude: -60.4594
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 296.717 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 292.154 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 293.214 degrees.