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Communities Also Named Southport ...

We found eighteen communities that are also named Southport.

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

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

  • Communities Located In Prince Edward Island ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Yolo County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Southport [Yolo County].
    • Connecticut
      • Fairfield County
      • This Southport is located in Fairfield County and lies 617 miles [993 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfield County community of Southport.
    • Florida
      • Bay County
      • This Southport is located in Bay County and lies 1,633 miles [2,628.1 km]<2> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bay County community of Southport.
    • Illinois
      • Peoria County
      • This Southport is located in Peoria County and lies 1,385 miles [2,228.9 km]<2> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Peoria County community of Southport.
    • Indiana
      • Marion County
      • This Southport is located in Marion County and lies 1,242 miles [1,998.8 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Southport.
      • Owen County
      • This Southport is located in Owen County and lies 1,285 miles [2,068 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of Southport.
    • Louisiana
      • Jefferson Parish
      • This Southport is located in Jefferson Parish and lies 1,833 miles [2,949.9 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson Parish community of Southport.
    • Maine
      • Lincoln County
      • This Southport is located in Lincoln County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Southport.
    • Manitoba
      • This Southport lies 1,627 miles [2,618.4 km]<2> to the west northwest.
    • Michigan
      • Monroe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Southport [Monroe County].
    • New York
      • Chemung County
      • This Southport is located in Chemung County and lies 736 miles [1,184.5 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chemung County community of Southport.
      • Suffolk County
      • This Southport is located in Suffolk County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Southport.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This Southport lies 461 miles [741.9 km]<2> to the east northeast.
    • North Carolina
      • Brunswick County
      • This Southport is located in Brunswick County and lies 1,154 miles [1,857.2 km]<2> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Southport.
    • Oregon
      • Coos County
      • This Southport is located in Coos County and lies 2,928 miles [4,712.2 km]<2> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coos County community of Southport.
    • Tennessee
      • Maury County
      • This Southport is located in Maury County and lies 1,448 miles [2,330.3 km]<2> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Southport.
    • Virginia
      • Prince William County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southport [Prince William County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Southport ...

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.

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 607 miles [976.9 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Southport to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<4>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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,029 miles [8,093.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,740 miles [9,237.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,615 miles [5,817.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Southport 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.
<2>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- Southport) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 Southport 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 Southport. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2252, Longitude: -63.1040    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 298.325 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 293.954 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 294.469 degrees.