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Communities Also Named Rockland ...

We found 33 communities that share the name Rockland.

Within Quebec, the name Rockland is unique.

Beyond Quebec, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 33 communities, four are located in Canada and 30 are in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Del Norte County
      • This Rockland is located in Del Norte County and lies 2,550 miles [4,103.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Del Norte County community of Rockland.
      • Shasta County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Shasta County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of Rockland.
    • Colorado
      • Logan County
      • This Rockland is located in Logan County and lies 1,572 miles [2,529.9 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of Rockland.
    • Connecticut
      • New Haven County
      • This Rockland is located in New Haven County and lies 288 miles [463.5 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Rockland.
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This Rockland is located in New Castle County and lies 434 miles [698.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Rockland.
    • Florida
      • Polk 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 Florida community of Rockland [Polk County].
    • Idaho
      • Power County
      • This Rockland is located in Power County and lies 2,010 miles [3,234.8 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Power County community of Rockland.
    • Kansas
      • Chase County
      • This Rockland is located in Chase County and lies 1,344 miles [2,163 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chase County community of Rockland.
    • Kentucky
      • Warren County
      • This Rockland is located in Warren County and lies 948 miles [1,525.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Rockland.
    • Maine
      • Knox County
      • This Rockland is located in Knox County and lies 177 miles [284.9 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Rockland.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Rockland is located in Baltimore County and lies 484 miles [778.9 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Rockland.
      • Howard County
      • This Rockland is located in Howard County and lies 494 miles [795 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Rockland.
      • Montgomery County
      • This Rockland is located in Montgomery County and lies 515 miles [828.8 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Rockland.
    • Massachusetts
      • Plymouth County
      • This Rockland is located in Plymouth County and lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Rockland.
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon County
      • This Rockland is located in Ontonagon County and lies 817 miles [1,314.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ontonagon County community of Rockland.
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Elko County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elko County community of Rockland.
      • Lyon County
      • This community is historic and although located in Lyon County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyon County community of Rockland.
    • New Brunswick
      • 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 Brunswick community of Rockland.
    • New York
      • Rockland 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 York community of Rockland [Rockland County].
      • Sullivan County
      • This Rockland is located in Sullivan County and lies 285 miles [458.7 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Rockland.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Rockland lies 362 miles [582.6 km]<1> to the east.
    • Ohio
      • Washington County
      • This Rockland is located in Washington County and lies 648 miles [1,042.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Rockland.
    • Ontario
      • This Rockland lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<1> to the west.
    • Oregon
      • Douglas 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 Oregon community of Rockland [Douglas County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Venango County
      • This Rockland is located in Venango County and lies 483 miles [777.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Venango County community of Rockland.
    • Rhode Island
      • Providence 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 Rhode Island community of Rockland [Providence County].
    • South Carolina
      • Charleston County
      • This Rockland is located in Charleston County and lies 992 miles [1,596.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Rockland.
    • Tennessee
      • Sumner County
      • This Rockland is located in Sumner County and lies 988 miles [1,590 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of Rockland.
    • Texas
      • Tyler County
      • This Rockland is located in Tyler County and lies 1,560 miles [2,510.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tyler County community of Rockland.
    • Virginia
      • Warren County
      • This Rockland is located in Warren County and lies 547 miles [880.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Rockland.
    • West Virginia
      • Greenbrier County
      • This Rockland is located in Greenbrier County and lies 691 miles [1,112.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenbrier County community of Rockland.
      • Hardy County
      • This Rockland is located in Hardy County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardy County community of Rockland.
    • Wisconsin
      • La Crosse County
      • This Rockland is located in La Crosse County and lies 926 miles [1,490.3 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the La Crosse County community of Rockland.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Rockland ...

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.

  • Gore
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gore came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gore
  • Greenlay
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenlay came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenlay
  • Greenshields
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenshields came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenshields
  • Hardwood Hill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hardwood Hill came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwood Hill
  • Kingsbury
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsbury came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbury
  • Lower Flodden
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Flodden came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Flodden
  • Melbourne Ridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melbourne Ridge came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melbourne Ridge
  • Morse
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morse came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morse

How Far From Rockland to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Rockland to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 173 miles [278.4 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Rockland to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,424 miles [8,729.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,146 miles [9,891 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,022 miles [6,472.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.ca/

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- Rockland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5667, Longitude: -72.1289    
<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 Rockland, 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 Rockland 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 Rockland 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 304.125 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.285 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 299.392 degrees.




 

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