Trout Lake (Northwest Territories) - Tidbits, Odds-and-Ends

Communities Also Named Trout Lake ...

We found seven communities that share the name Trout Lake.

Within Northwest Territories, the name Trout Lake is unique.

Beyond Northwest Territories, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these seven communities, six are located in Canada and three are in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - This Trout Lake lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the southeast.
- British Columbia
  - This Trout Lake lies 691 miles [1,112.1 km]<1> to the south southeast.
- Colorado
  - San Miguel 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 Colorado community of Trout Lake [San Miguel County].
- Michigan
  - Chippewa County
  - This Trout Lake is located in Chippewa County and lies 1,754 miles [2,822.8 km]<1> to the east southeast.
  - For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chippewa County community of Trout Lake.
- Nova Scotia
  - This Trout Lake lies 2,593 miles [4,173 km]<1> to the east.
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Trout Lake.
- Washington
  - Klickitat County
  - This Trout Lake is located in Klickitat County and lies 997 miles [1,604.5 km]<1> to the south.
  - For more information, please visit our profile page for the Klickitat County community of Trout Lake.

How Far From Trout Lake 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 Trout Lake to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

Yellowknife, which is the Territorial Capital of Northwest Territories, lies 265 miles [426.5 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Trout Lake to Yellowknife, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 2,102 miles [3,382.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 83 days and walking would take 120 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,923 miles [9,532.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,677 miles [10,745.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,895 miles [7,877.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>

Off-the-Road Links ...

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Footnotes ...

<1>	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 from Point A (ie- Trout Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Trout Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 60.4413, Longitude: -121.2452
<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 Trout Lake 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>	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.
<4>	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 Trout Lake to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.113 degrees.
<6>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.299 degrees.
<7>	The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.287 degrees.