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Communities Also Named Blanche ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Blanche.

There is one other community in Ontario which is also named Blanche.

Beyond Ontario, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these thirteen communities, three are located in Canada and eleven are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ontario ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Cherokee County
      • This Blanche is located in Cherokee County and lies 1,084 miles [1,744.5 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Blanche.
    • Kansas
      • Elk 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 Kansas community of Blanche [Elk County].
    • Kentucky
      • Bell County
      • This Blanche is located in Bell County and lies 921 miles [1,482.2 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of Blanche.
    • Louisiana
      • Rapides Parish
      • This Blanche is located in Rapides Parish and lies 1,369 miles [2,203.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rapides Parish community of Blanche.
    • Mississippi
      • Yalobusha 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 Mississippi community of Blanche [Yalobusha County].
    • Missouri
      • Douglas County
      • This Blanche is located in Douglas County and lies 972 miles [1,564.3 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Blanche.
    • Nebraska
      • Chase County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Blanche [Chase County].
    • North Carolina
      • Caswell 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 Blanche [Caswell County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Blanche lies 1,057 miles [1,701.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
    • Quebec
      • This Blanche lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east southeast.
    • South Carolina
      • Horry 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 South Carolina community of Blanche [Horry County].
    • Tennessee
      • Lincoln County
      • This Blanche is located in Lincoln County and lies 1,039 miles [1,672.1 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Blanche.
    • West Virginia
      • Hancock 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 West Virginia community of Blanche [Hancock County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Blanche ...

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.

  • Grant ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
  • Lynx
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lynx came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynx

How Far From Blanche to ...

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Blanche to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,725 miles [9,213.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,480 miles [10,428.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,392 miles [7,068.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Blanche) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blanche. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 50.0764, Longitude: -85.7125    
<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 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 Blanche 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>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 Blanche, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Blanche 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 312.72 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.605 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.676 degrees.




 

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