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Communities Also Named Iona ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Iona.

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

Beyond Ontario, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these eighteen communities, four are located in Canada and fifteen are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ontario ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Lee County
      • This Iona is located in Lee County and lies 1,117 miles [1,797.6 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Iona.
    • Idaho
      • Bonneville County
      • This Iona is located in Bonneville County and lies 1,532 miles [2,465.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bonneville County community of Iona.
    • Indiana
      • Knox County
      • This Iona is located in Knox County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Iona.
    • Minnesota
      • Murray County
      • This Iona is located in Murray County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Murray County community of Iona.
    • Missouri
      • Cape Girardeau County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Cape Girardeau County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cape Girardeau County community of Iona.
      • Worth County
      • Although located in Worth County, we don't know the location within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worth County community of Iona.
    • Montana
      • Dawson 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 Montana community of Iona [Dawson County].
    • New Jersey
      • Gloucester County
      • This Iona is located in Gloucester County and lies 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Iona.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This Iona lies 1,368 miles [2,201.6 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Iona lies 1,037 miles [1,668.9 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • Ohio
      • Ashtabula County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Ashtabula County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ashtabula County community of Iona.
    • Oklahoma
      • Murray County
      • This Iona is located in Murray County and lies 1,008 miles [1,622.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Murray County community of Iona.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lebanon County
      • This Iona is located in Lebanon County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lebanon County community of Iona.
    • Prince Edward Island
      • This Iona lies 944 miles [1,519.2 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • South Dakota
      • Lyman County
      • This Iona is located in Lyman County and lies 909 miles [1,462.9 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyman County community of Iona.
    • Texas
      • Parker County
      • This Iona is located in Parker County and lies 1,118 miles [1,799.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Parker County community of Iona.
      • Tarrant 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 Texas community of Iona [Tarrant County].
    • Washington
      • Adams 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 Washington community of Iona [Adams County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Iona ...

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.

  • Eagle
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle
  • Erie Rest
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Largie
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Largie
  • Littlewood
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Littlewood came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlewood
  • Melbourne
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Middlemiss
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Norman
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norman came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman
  • Union
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union

How Far From Iona to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Iona to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 339 miles [545.6 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Iona to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 20 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,909 miles [9,509.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,638 miles [10,682.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,516 miles [7,267.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Iona. 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Iona) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Iona. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6903, Longitude: -81.3861    
<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 Iona, 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 Iona 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>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 Iona 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 310.338 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.798 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.243 degrees.




 

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