We found 54 communities that share the name Petersburg.
Within Ontario, the name Petersburg is unique.
Beyond Ontario, we know of another 54 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alaska
This Petersburg lies 2,424 miles [3,901 km]<1> to the northwest.
California
Calaveras County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Calaveras County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calaveras County community of Petersburg.
Kern County
This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Petersburg [Kern County].
Delaware
Kent County
This Petersburg is located in Kent County and lies 396 miles [637.3 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Petersburg.
Georgia
Gordon County
This Petersburg is located in Gordon County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gordon County community of Petersburg.
Illinois
Lawrence County
This Petersburg is located in Lawrence County and lies 502 miles [807.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Petersburg.
Menard County
This Petersburg is located in Menard County and lies 530 miles [853 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Menard County community of Petersburg.
Saint Clair County
This Petersburg is located in Saint Clair County and lies 588 miles [946.3 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Clair County community of Petersburg.
Indiana
Jackson County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Petersburg [Jackson County].
Pike County
This Petersburg is located in Pike County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Petersburg.
Iowa
Delaware County
This Petersburg is located in Delaware County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Petersburg.
Muscatine County
This Petersburg is located in Muscatine County and lies 533 miles [857.8 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscatine County community of Petersburg.
Kansas
Bourbon County
This Petersburg is located in Bourbon County and lies 846 miles [1,361.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bourbon County community of Petersburg.
Doniphan 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 Kansas community of Petersburg [Doniphan County].
Edwards County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Petersburg [Edwards County].
Leavenworth County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Petersburg [Leavenworth County].
Marshall County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Petersburg [Marshall County].
Wyandotte County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Petersburg [Wyandotte County].
Kentucky
Boone County
This Petersburg is located in Boone County and lies 372 miles [598.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boone County community of Petersburg.
Jefferson County
This Petersburg is located in Jefferson County and lies 447 miles [719.4 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Petersburg.
Webster 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 Kentucky community of Petersburg [Webster County].
Maryland
Dorchester County
This Petersburg is located in Dorchester County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Petersburg.
Michigan
Monroe County
This Petersburg is located in Monroe County and lies 189 miles [304.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Petersburg.
Minnesota
Jackson County
This Petersburg is located in Jackson County and lies 716 miles [1,152.3 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Petersburg.
Missouri
Boone County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Petersburg [Boone County].
Cooper County
This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Petersburg [Cooper County].
Henry County
This Petersburg is located in Henry County and lies 767 miles [1,234.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Petersburg.
Howard County
This Petersburg is located in Howard County and lies 704 miles [1,133 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Petersburg.
Nebraska
Boone County
This Petersburg is located in Boone County and lies 892 miles [1,435.5 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boone County community of Petersburg.
New Jersey
Cape May County
This Petersburg is located in Cape May County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cape May County community of Petersburg.
Morris County
This Petersburg is located in Morris County and lies 352 miles [566.5 km] to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morris County community of Petersburg.
Warren County
This Petersburg is located in Warren County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km] to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Petersburg.
New York
Rensselaer County
This Petersburg is located in Rensselaer County and lies 369 miles [593.8 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rensselaer County community of Petersburg.
North Carolina
Burke County
This Petersburg is located in Burke County and lies 535 miles [861 km]<1> to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burke County community of Petersburg.
Madison County
This Petersburg is located in Madison County and lies 534 miles [859.4 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Petersburg.
Onslow County
This Petersburg is located in Onslow County and lies 608 miles [978.5 km] to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Petersburg.
North Dakota
Nelson County
This Petersburg is located in Nelson County and lies 894 miles [1,438.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nelson County community of Petersburg.
Ohio
Jackson County
This Petersburg is located in Jackson County and lies 325 miles [523 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Petersburg.
Mahoning County
This Petersburg is located in Mahoning County and lies 172 miles [276.8 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mahoning County community of Petersburg.
Oklahoma
Jefferson County
This Petersburg is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,120 miles [1,802.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Petersburg.
Oregon
Wasco County
This Petersburg is located in Wasco County and lies 1,977 miles [3,181.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wasco County community of Petersburg.
Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
This Petersburg is located in Huntingdon County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Petersburg.
Lancaster 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 Pennsylvania community of Petersburg [Lancaster County].
Mercer County
This Petersburg is located in Mercer County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Petersburg.
York County
This Petersburg is located in York County and lies 319 miles [513.4 km] to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Petersburg.
Tennessee
Hawkins County
This Petersburg is located in Hawkins County and lies 499 miles [803.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hawkins County community of Petersburg.
Lincoln County
This Petersburg is located in Lincoln County and lies 644 miles [1,036.4 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Petersburg.
Texas
Floyd 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 Petersburg [Floyd County].
Hale County
This Petersburg is located in Hale County and lies 1,304 miles [2,098.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hale County community of Petersburg.
Virginia
Dinwiddie 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 Virginia community of Petersburg [Dinwiddie County].
Fauquier County
This Petersburg is located in Fauquier County and lies 338 miles [544 km]<1> to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fauquier County community of Petersburg.
Petersburg City
This Petersburg is located in Petersburg City and lies 459 miles [738.7 km] to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Petersburg City community of Petersburg.
West Virginia
Grant County
This Petersburg is located in Grant County and lies 314 miles [505.3 km]<1> to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Petersburg.
Wisconsin
Crawford County
This Petersburg is located in Crawford County and lies 513 miles [825.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Petersburg.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Petersburg ...
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.
Blink Bonnie (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blink Bonnie came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
German Mills ‑ Historic (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for German Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Josephsburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
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 Petersburg to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Petersburg and extending to:
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 278 miles [447.4 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Petersburg to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<7>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 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<8> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,846 miles [9,408.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,576 miles [10,583 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,455 miles [7,169.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<11>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Petersburg) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Petersburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4135, Longitude: -80.6051
<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 Petersburg, 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 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 Petersburg 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>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>
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.
<8>
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 Petersburg to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.789 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.288 degrees.
<11>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.585 degrees.