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Communities Also Named Harrington ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Harrington.

There is one other community in Prince Edward Island which is also named Harrington.

Beyond Prince Edward Island, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these sixteen communities, four are located in Canada and thirteen are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Prince Edward Island ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Colusa County
      • This Harrington is located in Colusa County and lies 2,961 miles [4,765.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colusa County community of Harrington.
    • Delaware
      • Kent County
      • This Harrington is located in Kent County and lies 810 miles [1,303.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Harrington.
    • Georgia
      • Glynn County
      • This Harrington is located in Glynn County and lies 1,426 miles [2,294.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glynn County community of Harrington.
    • Maine
      • Washington County
      • This Harrington is located in Washington County and lies 254 miles [408.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Harrington.
    • Maryland
      • Carroll County
      • This Harrington is located in Carroll County and lies 839 miles [1,350.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Harrington.
    • Nebraska
      • Wheeler County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Wheeler County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wheeler County community of Harrington.
    • New Jersey
      • Bergen 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 Jersey community of Harrington [Bergen County].
    • New Mexico
      • Union County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Union County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Harrington.
    • New York
      • Harrington #2
      • 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 York community of Harrington.
    • North Carolina
      • Harnett 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 North Carolina community of Harrington [Harnett County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Harrington lies 210 miles [338 km]<1> to the southwest.
    • Ontario
      • This Harrington lies 897 miles [1,443.6 km]<1> to the west.
    • Quebec
      • This Harrington lies 551 miles [886.7 km]<1> to the west.
    • South Dakota
      • Bennett County
      • This Harrington is located in Bennett County and lies 1,862 miles [2,996.6 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bennett County community of Harrington.
    • Virginia
      • Alleghany County
      • This Harrington is located in Alleghany County and lies 1,039 miles [1,672.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alleghany County community of Harrington.
    • Washington
      • Lincoln County
      • This Harrington is located in Lincoln County and lies 2,543 miles [4,092.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Harrington.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Harrington ...

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.

  • Covehead
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Covehead came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covehead
  • Covehead Road
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Covehead Road. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covehead Road
  • Ebenezer
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ebenezer came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
  • Highfield
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Highfield came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highfield
  • Little York
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little York came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
  • Loyalist
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loyalist came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyalist
  • Pleasant Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Grove came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
  • Royalty Junction
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Spring Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Park came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Park
  • Springvale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springvale came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springvale
  • Union
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Union came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
  • Union Road
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Harrington to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 35 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 24 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,028 miles [8,091.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,739 miles [9,236 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,614 miles [5,816.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>

The official website for Province of Prince Edward Island: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Harrington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Harrington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.3500, Longitude: -63.1667    
<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 Harrington, 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 Harrington 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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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 Harrington 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 298.33 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 293.984 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 294.413 degrees.




 

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