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Communities Also Named Moose River ...
We found five communities that share the name Moose River.
There is one other community in Ontario which is also named Moose River.
Beyond Ontario, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these four communities, five are located in Canada and two are in the United States.
- Communities Located In Ontario ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maine
- Somerset County
- This Moose River is located in Somerset County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the east southeast.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Moose River.
- New York
- Lewis 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 York community of Moose River [Lewis County].
- Nova Scotia
- This Moose River lies 869 miles [1,398.5 km]<1> to the east southeast.
- Quebec
- This Moose River lies 540 miles [869 km]<1> to the southeast.
How Far From Moose River 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 Moose River to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Moose River and extending to:
- The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 451 miles [725.8 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Moose River to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<3>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 26 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 18 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,545 miles [8,923.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,296 miles [10,132.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,202 miles [6,762.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
Off-the-Road Links ...
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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Moose River) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Moose River. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 50.8097, Longitude: -81.2814 |
| <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 Moose River 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 Moose River 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 309.495 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.135 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.75 degrees. |
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