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Communities Also Named Stafford ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Stafford.

Within Ontario, the name Stafford is unique.

Beyond Ontario, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Pickens County
      • This Stafford is located in Pickens County and lies 1,035 miles [1,665.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of Stafford.
    • Arkansas
      • Yell County
      • This Stafford is located in Yell County and lies 1,123 miles [1,807.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yell County community of Stafford.
    • California
      • Humboldt County
      • This Stafford is located in Humboldt County and lies 2,354 miles [3,788.4 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humboldt County community of Stafford.
      • Sutter 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 California community of Stafford [Sutter County].
    • Connecticut
      • Tolland County
      • This Stafford is located in Tolland County and lies 361 miles [581 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tolland County community of Stafford.
    • Georgia
      • Camden County
      • This Stafford is located in Camden County and lies 1,062 miles [1,709.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Stafford.
    • Kansas
      • Stafford County
      • This Stafford is located in Stafford County and lies 1,221 miles [1,965 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Stafford.
    • Maryland
      • Harford 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 Maryland community of Stafford [Harford County].
      • Prince George's County
      • This Stafford is located in Prince George's County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Stafford.
    • Mississippi
      • Bolivar 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 Mississippi community of Stafford [Bolivar County].
    • Nebraska
      • Holt County
      • This Stafford is located in Holt County and lies 1,077 miles [1,733.3 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holt County community of Stafford.
    • New Jersey
      • Stafford #
      • 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 New Jersey community of Stafford.
    • New York
      • Genesee County
      • This Stafford is located in Genesee County and lies 202 miles [325.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Genesee County community of Stafford.
    • Ohio
      • Clark County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Clark County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Stafford.
      • Monroe County
      • This Stafford is located in Monroe County and lies 470 miles [756.4 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Stafford.
    • Oklahoma
      • Custer County
      • This Stafford is located in Custer County and lies 1,343 miles [2,161.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Custer County community of Stafford.
    • Oregon
      • Clackamas County
      • This Stafford is located in Clackamas County and lies 2,168 miles [3,489.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clackamas County community of Stafford.
    • South Carolina
      • Hampton County
      • This Stafford is located in Hampton County and lies 933 miles [1,501.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampton County community of Stafford.
    • Texas
      • Fort Bend County
      • This Stafford is located in Fort Bend County and lies 1,495 miles [2,406 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fort Bend County community of Stafford.
    • Vermont
      • Orange 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 Vermont community of Stafford [Orange County].
    • Virginia
      • Stafford County
      • This Stafford is located in Stafford County and lies 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Stafford.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Stafford ...

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.

  • Alice
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alice came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
  • Cedar Beach
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Indian Landing
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Landing came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Landing
  • Marion's Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marion's Corner came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion's Corner
  • Old Road Crossing
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Road Crossing came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Road Crossing
  • Pine Meadows
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pine Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Pleasant View
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant View came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
  • Riverview
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Shady Nook
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shady Nook came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Nook
  • Stonebrook
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stonebrook came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonebrook

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 78 miles [125.5 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Stafford to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,611 miles [9,030 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,343 miles [10,208.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,223 miles [6,796.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Stafford. 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 from Point A (ie- Stafford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Stafford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.8468, Longitude: -77.2076    
<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 Stafford, 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 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 Stafford 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 Stafford 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 307.352 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.938 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.833 degrees.




 

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