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Communities Also Named Prosperity ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Prosperity.

Within Ontario, the name Prosperity is unique.

Beyond Ontario, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Boone County
      • This Prosperity is located in Boone County and lies 803 miles [1,292.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boone County community of Prosperity.
      • Yell County
      • This Prosperity is located in Yell County and lies 860 miles [1,384 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yell County community of Prosperity.
    • Florida
      • Holmes County
      • This Prosperity is located in Holmes County and lies 927 miles [1,491.9 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of Prosperity.
    • Georgia
      • Brantley County
      • This Prosperity is located in Brantley County and lies 871 miles [1,401.7 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brantley County community of Prosperity.
    • Illinois
      • Franklin 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 Illinois community of Prosperity [Franklin County].
    • Indiana
      • Madison County
      • This Prosperity is located in Madison County and lies 329 miles [529.5 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Prosperity.
    • Kentucky
      • Edmonson County
      • This Prosperity is located in Edmonson County and lies 514 miles [827.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Edmonson County community of Prosperity.
      • Lawrence County
      • This Prosperity is located in Lawrence County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km] to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Prosperity.
    • Missouri
      • Jasper County
      • This Prosperity is located in Jasper County and lies 818 miles [1,316.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jasper County community of Prosperity.
    • North Carolina
      • Moore 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 Prosperity [Moore County].
    • Ohio
      • Pike County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Pike County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Prosperity.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Washington County
      • This Prosperity is located in Washington County and lies 268 miles [431.3 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Prosperity.
    • South Carolina
      • Newberry County
      • This Prosperity is located in Newberry County and lies 664 miles [1,068.6 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newberry County community of Prosperity.
    • Tennessee
      • Macon County
      • This Prosperity is located in Macon County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Prosperity.
      • Shelby County
      • This Prosperity is located in Shelby County and lies 738 miles [1,187.7 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Prosperity.
      • Wilson County
      • This Prosperity is located in Wilson County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Prosperity.
    • West Virginia
      • Raleigh County
      • This Prosperity is located in Raleigh County and lies 414 miles [666.3 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Raleigh County community of Prosperity.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Prosperity ...

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.

  • Bogies Beach
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bogies Beach came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogies Beach
  • Crewe
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crewe came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crewe
  • Donnybrook
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Donnybrook came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnybrook
  • Kingsbridge
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsbridge came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbridge
  • Lanes
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lanes came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanes
  • Loyal
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loyal came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal
  • Saltford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saltford came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltford
  • Summerhill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerhill came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerhill
  • Sunset Beach
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Sunshine
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
  • Zion
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Prosperity 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 18 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 12 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,864 miles [9,437.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,597 miles [10,616.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,477 miles [7,205 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 '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- Prosperity) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prosperity. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8306, Longitude: -81.5392    
<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 Prosperity 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 Prosperity, 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 Prosperity 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 310.365 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.003 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.885 degrees.




 

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