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Communities Also Named Tunis ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Tunis.

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

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

  • Communities Located In Ontario ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Greene County
      • This Tunis is located in Greene County and lies 1,015 miles [1,633.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Tunis.
    • Georgia
      • Henry 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 Georgia community of Tunis [Henry County].
    • Maryland
      • Talbot County
      • This Tunis is located in Talbot County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talbot County community of Tunis.
    • Michigan
      • Baraga County
      • This Tunis is located in Baraga County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baraga County community of Tunis.
    • Montana
      • Chouteau County
      • This Tunis is located in Chouteau County and lies 1,370 miles [2,204.8 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chouteau County community of Tunis.
    • New Mexico
      • Grant 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 New Mexico community of Tunis [Grant County].
      • Luna County
      • This Tunis is located in Luna County and lies 1,808 miles [2,909.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luna County community of Tunis.
    • North Carolina
      • Hertford County
      • This Tunis is located in Hertford County and lies 882 miles [1,419.4 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hertford County community of Tunis.
    • Texas
      • Burleson County
      • This Tunis is located in Burleson County and lies 1,506 miles [2,423.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burleson County community of Tunis.
    • Virginia
      • Rockingham County
      • This Tunis is located in Rockingham County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Tunis.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Tunis ...

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.

  • Drinkwater
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Drinkwater came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drinkwater
  • Fielding
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fielding came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fielding
  • Florida
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
  • Nellie Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nellie Lake came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nellie Lake
  • Potter
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Potter came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter
  • Twin Falls
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Falls came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Falls
  • Welsh
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Welsh came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welsh
  • Wings
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wings came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wings

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 337 miles [542.3 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Tunis 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 20 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,616 miles [9,038.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,362 miles [10,238.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,257 miles [6,851 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Tunis. 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Tunis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tunis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8397, Longitude: -80.8397    
<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 Tunis, 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 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 Tunis 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 Tunis 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 309.432 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.746 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.411 degrees.




 

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