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Communities Also Named Westminster ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Westminster.

Within Quebec, the name Westminster is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Orange County
      • This Westminster is located in Orange County and lies 2,449 miles [3,941.3 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Westminster.
    • Colorado
      • Jefferson County
      • This Westminster is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,619 miles [2,605.5 km]<1> to the west.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Westminster.
    • Connecticut
      • Windham County
      • This Westminster is located in Windham County and lies 275 miles [442.6 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windham County community of Westminster.
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This Westminster is located in New Castle County and lies 405 miles [651.8 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Westminster.
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Westminster is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,296 miles [2,085.7 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Westminster.
    • Illinois
      • Shelby 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 Illinois community of Westminster [Shelby County].
    • Kansas
      • Reno 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 Kansas community of Westminster [Reno County].
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • This Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 1,394 miles [2,243.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Westminster.
    • Maryland
      • Carroll County
      • This Westminster is located in Carroll County and lies 437 miles [703.3 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Westminster.
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • This Westminster is located in Worcester County and lies 223 miles [358.9 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Westminster.
    • Michigan
      • Grand Traverse 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 Michigan community of Westminster [Grand Traverse County].
    • North Carolina
      • Rutherford County
      • This Westminster is located in Rutherford County and lies 809 miles [1,302 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Westminster.
    • Ohio
      • Allen County
      • This Westminster is located in Allen County and lies 607 miles [976.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Westminster.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Westminster.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Erie County
      • This Westminster is located in Erie County and lies 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Westminster.
      • Luzerne County
      • This Westminster is located in Luzerne County and lies 305 miles [490.8 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Westminster.
    • South Carolina
      • Oconee County
      • This Westminster is located in Oconee County and lies 890 miles [1,432.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oconee County community of Westminster.
    • Texas
      • Brazoria County
      • This Westminster is located in Brazoria County and lies 1,597 miles [2,570.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazoria County community of Westminster.
      • Collin County
      • This Westminster is located in Collin County and lies 1,459 miles [2,348 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collin County community of Westminster.
    • Vermont
      • Windham County
      • This Westminster is located in Windham County and lies 179 miles [288.1 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windham County community of Westminster.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Westminster ...

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.

  • Bordeaux
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bordeaux came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bordeaux
  • Cedar Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Park came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Park
  • Creek Beach
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Creek Beach came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creek Beach
  • Elm Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elm Park came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Park
  • Grove Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grove Hill came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Hill
  • Lacey Green
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lacey Green came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacey Green
  • Lakeroad
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakeroad came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeroad
  • Monkland
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monkland came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monkland
  • Pincourt
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pincourt came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pincourt
  • Wildwood
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wildwood came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood

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

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 89 miles [143.2 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Westminster to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>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 shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,496 miles [8,845 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,098 miles [6,595.1 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Westminster) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Westminster. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4717, Longitude: -73.8453    
<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 Westminster, 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 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 Westminster 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 Westminster 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 305.233 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.506 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.304 degrees.




 

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