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Communities Also Named Chatham ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Chatham.

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

Beyond Ontario, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 26 communities, three are located in Canada and 24 are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ontario ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • This Chatham lies 2,487 miles [4,002.4 km]<1> to the northwest.
    • Connecticut
      • Tolland County
      • Although located in Tolland County, we don't know the location within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tolland County community of Chatham.
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This Chatham is located in New Castle County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Chatham.
    • Florida
      • Monroe County
      • This Chatham is located in Monroe County and lies 1,153 miles [1,855.6 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Chatham.
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • This Chatham is located in Cook County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Chatham.
      • Sangamon County
      • This Chatham is located in Sangamon County and lies 434 miles [698.5 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sangamon County community of Chatham.
    • Kentucky
      • Bracken County
      • This Chatham is located in Bracken County and lies 271 miles [436.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bracken County community of Chatham.
    • Louisiana
      • Jackson Parish
      • This Chatham is located in Jackson Parish and lies 894 miles [1,438.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson Parish community of Chatham.
    • Maryland
      • Harford County
      • This Chatham is located in Harford County and lies 366 miles [589 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Chatham.
      • Howard County
      • This Chatham is located in Howard County and lies 352 miles [566.5 km] to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Chatham.
      • Prince George's County
      • This Chatham is located in Prince George's County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km] to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Chatham.
    • Massachusetts
      • Barnstable County
      • This Chatham is located in Barnstable County and lies 628 miles [1,010.7 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barnstable County community of Chatham.
    • Michigan
      • Alger County
      • This Chatham is located in Alger County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alger County community of Chatham.
    • Minnesota
      • Kittson County
      • This Chatham is located in Kittson County and lies 833 miles [1,340.6 km]<1> to the northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kittson County community of Chatham.
      • Wright 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 Minnesota community of Chatham [Wright County].
    • Mississippi
      • Washington County
      • This Chatham is located in Washington County and lies 804 miles [1,293.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Chatham.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Chatham lies 878 miles [1,413 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • New Hampshire
      • Carroll County
      • This Chatham is located in Carroll County and lies 574 miles [923.8 km]<1> to the east northeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Chatham.
    • New Jersey
      • Morris 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 New Jersey community of Chatham [Morris County].
    • New York
      • Columbia County
      • This Chatham is located in Columbia County and lies 437 miles [703.3 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Chatham.
    • Ohio
      • Licking County
      • This Chatham is located in Licking County and lies 155 miles [249.4 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Licking County community of Chatham.
      • Medina County
      • This Chatham is located in Medina County and lies 90 miles [144.8 km] to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Medina County community of Chatham.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • This Chatham is located in Chester County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of Chatham.
    • Quebec
      • This Chatham lies 445 miles [716.2 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • Virginia
      • Pittsylvania County
      • This Chatham is located in Pittsylvania County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pittsylvania County community of Chatham.
    • Wyoming
      • Washakie 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 Wyoming community of Chatham [Washakie County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Chatham ...

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.

  • Bear Line
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Charing Cross
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Charing Cross came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charing Cross
  • Fargo
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fargo came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fargo
  • Kent Bridge
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Kent Centre
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kent Centre came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Centre
  • Louiseville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Oriole Parkway
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oriole Parkway came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oriole Parkway
  • Pain Court
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Prairie Siding
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Siding came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Siding

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 384 miles [618 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Chatham to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 22 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,953 miles [9,580.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,682 miles [10,753.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,560 miles [7,338.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Chatham. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chatham) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chatham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4000, Longitude: -82.1833    
<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 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 Chatham 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>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.
<4>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.
<5>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 Chatham to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.865 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.35 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.735 degrees.









 

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