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Communities Also Named Inverness ...

We found twenty communities that are also named Inverness.

There is one other community in Prince Edward Island that is also named Inverness.

Beyond Prince Edward Island, we know of nineteen communities that are located in Canada and the United States. Of these nineteen communities, three are located in Canada and seventeen are in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Prince Edward Island ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Bullock County
      • This Inverness is located in Bullock County and lies 1,528 miles [2,459.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bullock County community of Inverness.
      • Shelby County
      • This Inverness is located in Shelby County and lies 1,498 miles [2,410.8 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Inverness.
    • California
      • Marin County
      • This Inverness is located in Marin County and lies 2,986 miles [4,805.5 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marin County community of Inverness.
    • Colorado
      • Douglas County
      • This Inverness is located in Douglas County and lies 2,090 miles [3,363.5 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Inverness.
    • Florida
      • Citrus County
      • This Inverness is located in Citrus County and lies 1,576 miles [2,536.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Citrus County community of Inverness.
    • Georgia
      • McIntosh 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 Georgia community of Inverness [McIntosh County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • This Inverness is located in Cook County and lies 1,223 miles [1,968.2 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Inverness.
    • Indiana
      • Steuben County
      • This Inverness is located in Steuben County and lies 1,093 miles [1,759 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Steuben County community of Inverness.
    • Kentucky
      • Breathitt 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 Kentucky community of Inverness [Breathitt County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Inverness is located in Baltimore County and lies 808 miles [1,300.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Inverness.
    • Michigan
      • Cheboygan 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 Michigan community of Inverness [Cheboygan County].
    • Mississippi
      • Sunflower County
      • This Inverness is located in Sunflower County and lies 1,665 miles [2,679.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sunflower County community of Inverness.
    • Montana
      • Hill County
      • This Inverness is located in Hill County and lies 2,141 miles [3,445.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hill County community of Inverness.
    • New York
      • Livingston County
      • This Inverness is located in Livingston County and lies 724 miles [1,165.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Inverness.
    • North Carolina
      • Cumberland 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 North Carolina community of Inverness [Cumberland County].
      • Hoke County
      • This Inverness is located in Hoke County and lies 1,117 miles [1,797.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hoke County community of Inverness.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Inverness lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the east southeast.
    • Ohio
      • Columbiana 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 Ohio community of Inverness [Columbiana County].
    • Quebec
      • This Inverness lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the west.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Inverness ...

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.

  • Alaska
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alaska
  • Derby
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
  • Fortune Cove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Freeland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeland
  • Harmony
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
  • Kelly Road
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lady Slipper
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Mount Pleasant
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Poplar Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Portage
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
  • Unionvale
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 565 miles [909.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Inverness to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<3>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 33 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,054 miles [8,133.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,768 miles [9,282.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,643 miles [5,862.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'

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- Inverness) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Inverness 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>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.
<4>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 Inverness to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Inverness. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.6500, Longitude: -64.0333    
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 298.791 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 294.552 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 294.643 degrees.