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Communities Also Named Ringwood ...

We found seven communities that share the name Ringwood.

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

Beyond Ontario, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these six communities, one is located in Canada and the other six communities are located in  the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ontario ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • McHenry County
      • This Ringwood is located in McHenry County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Ringwood.
    • Louisiana
      • Winn Parish
      • This Ringwood is located in Winn Parish and lies 1,094 miles [1,760.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winn Parish community of Ringwood.
    • New Jersey
      • Passaic 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 Ringwood [Passaic County].
    • North Carolina
      • Halifax County
      • This Ringwood is located in Halifax County and lies 540 miles [869 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Ringwood.
    • Oklahoma
      • Major County
      • This Ringwood is located in Major County and lies 1,125 miles [1,810.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Major County community of Ringwood.
      • Woods 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 Oklahoma community of Ringwood [Woods County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Ringwood ...

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.

  • Aurora
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aurora came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aurora <4>
  • Glasgow
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasgow
  • Goodwood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwood
  • Green River
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Green River came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green River
  • Lemonville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Lincolnville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Musselman's Lake
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Peach's
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach's
    • Peach's has also been known as:
    • Peaches
  • Pine Orchard
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Pleasantville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Roseville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 202 miles [325.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Ringwood to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,771 miles [9,287.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,500 miles [10,460.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,378 miles [7,045.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ringwood. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ringwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ringwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9652, Longitude: -79.2745    
<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 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 Ringwood 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Ringwood 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 308.889 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.36 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.707 degrees.









 

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