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We found 36 communities that share the name Rockdale.
There are six communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Rockdale.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 34 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Bucks County
This Rockdale is located in Bucks County and lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Rockdale.
Butler County
This Rockdale is located in Butler County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Rockdale.
Franklin County
This Rockdale is located in Franklin County and lies 125 miles [201.2 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Rockdale.
Jefferson County
This Rockdale is located in Jefferson County and lies 199 miles [320.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Rockdale.
Lackawanna County
This Rockdale is located in Lackawanna County and lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<1> to the north of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lackawanna County community of Rockdale.
Lehigh County
This Rockdale is located in Lehigh County and lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<1> to the north of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lehigh County community of Rockdale.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Rockdale is located in Jefferson County and lies 781 miles [1,256.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Rockdale.
Randolph County
This Rockdale is located in Randolph County and lies 714 miles [1,149.1 km] to the southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Rockdale.
Colorado
Chaffee County
This Rockdale is located in Chaffee County and lies 1,644 miles [2,645.8 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chaffee County community of Rockdale.
Fremont 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 Colorado community of Rockdale [Fremont County].
Florida
Miami-Dade County
This Rockdale is located in Miami-Dade County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami-Dade County community of Rockdale.
Georgia
Fulton County
This Rockdale is located in Fulton County and lies 651 miles [1,047.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Rockdale.
Illinois
Will County
This Rockdale is located in Will County and lies 672 miles [1,081.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Rockdale.
Indiana
Franklin County
This Rockdale is located in Franklin County and lies 501 miles [806.3 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Rockdale.
Iowa
Dubuque County
This Rockdale is located in Dubuque County and lies 810 miles [1,303.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dubuque County community of Rockdale.
Kentucky
Boyd County
This Rockdale is located in Boyd County and lies 401 miles [645.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boyd County community of Rockdale.
Owen County
This Rockdale is located in Owen County and lies 505 miles [812.7 km] to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Rockdale.
Maryland
Washington County
This Rockdale is located in Washington County and lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Rockdale.
Massachusetts
Berkshire 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Berkshire County].
Bristol County
This Rockdale is located in Bristol County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bristol County community of Rockdale.
Norfolk 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Norfolk County].
Missouri
Camden County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Camden County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Rockdale.
New York
Chenango County
This Rockdale is located in Chenango County and lies 171 miles [275.2 km]<1> to the north of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chenango County community of Rockdale.
North Carolina
Cleveland County
This Rockdale is located in Cleveland County and lies 449 miles [722.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Rockdale.
Nova Scotia
This Rockdale lies 839 miles [1,350.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
Ohio
Butler County
This Rockdale is located in Butler County and lies 480 miles [772.5 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Rockdale.
Ontario
This Rockdale lies 341 miles [548.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
Tennessee
Maury County
This Rockdale is located in Maury County and lies 713 miles [1,147.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Rockdale.
Rutherford County
This Rockdale is located in Rutherford County and lies 655 miles [1,054.1 km] to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Rockdale.
Texas
Hopkins County
This Rockdale is located in Hopkins County and lies 1,211 miles [1,948.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hopkins County community of Rockdale.
Milam County
This Rockdale is located in Milam County and lies 1,367 miles [2,200 km] to the west southwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milam County community of Rockdale.
Washington
King County
This Rockdale is located in King County and lies 2,321 miles [3,735.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Rockdale.
Lincoln 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 Washington community of Rockdale [Lincoln County].
West Virginia
Brooke County
This Rockdale is located in Brooke County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the west of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brooke County community of Rockdale.
Wisconsin
Dane County
This Rockdale is located in Dane County and lies 734 miles [1,181.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rockdale that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dane County community of Rockdale.
Wyoming
Carbon 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 Wyoming community of Rockdale [Carbon County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rockdale ...
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.
Black Horse (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Horse have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Rockdale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rockdale and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Rockdale to Harrisburg, with an average speed<6>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 White House (Washington, DC) is 109 miles [175.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,788 miles [9,314.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,494 miles [10,451.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,370 miles [7,032.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rockdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8879, Longitude: -75.4390 In this case, the coordinates for Rockdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Rockdale 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 county. 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 Rockdale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>
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.
<7>
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 Rockdale to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.872 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.438 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.639 degrees.