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We found 32 communities that share the name Bloomington.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Bloomington.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 30 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Putnam 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 Tennessee community of Bloomington [Putnam County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jackson 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 Alabama community of Bloomington [Jackson County].
Arkansas
Van Buren 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 Arkansas community of Bloomington [Van Buren County].
California
San Bernardino County
This Bloomington is located in San Bernardino County and lies 1,813 miles [2,917.7 km]<3> to the west of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Bloomington.
Idaho
Bear Lake County
This Bloomington is located in Bear Lake County and lies 1,445 miles [2,325.5 km]<3> to the west northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bear Lake County community of Bloomington.
Illinois
McLean County
This Bloomington is located in McLean County and lies 338 miles [544 km]<3> to the northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McLean County community of Bloomington.
Indiana
Monroe County
This Bloomington is located in Monroe County and lies 192 miles [309 km]<3> to the north northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Bloomington.
Iowa
Story County
This Bloomington is located in Story County and lies 586 miles [943.1 km]<3> to the northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Story County community of Bloomington.
Kansas
Atchison 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 Kansas community of Bloomington [Atchison County].
Butler County
This Bloomington is located in Butler County and lies 646 miles [1,039.6 km]<3> to the west of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Bloomington.
Coffey County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bloomington [Coffey County].
Osborne County
This Bloomington is located in Osborne County and lies 764 miles [1,229.5 km] to the west northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Osborne County community of Bloomington.
Riley County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bloomington [Riley County].
Kentucky
Grayson 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 Kentucky community of Bloomington [Grayson County].
Magoffin County
This Bloomington is located in Magoffin County and lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<3> to the northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Magoffin County community of Bloomington.
Maryland
Garrett County
This Bloomington is located in Garrett County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<3> to the east northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garrett County community of Bloomington.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
This Bloomington is located in Hennepin County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km]<3> to the northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hennepin County community of Bloomington.
Missouri
Macon County
This Bloomington is located in Macon County and lies 457 miles [735.5 km]<3> to the west northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Bloomington.
Nebraska
Franklin County
This Bloomington is located in Franklin County and lies 787 miles [1,266.6 km]<3> to the west northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Bloomington.
New York
Ulster County
This Bloomington is located in Ulster County and lies 698 miles [1,123.3 km]<3> to the northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ulster County community of Bloomington.
North Carolina
Stanly County
This Bloomington is located in Stanly County and lies 286 miles [460.3 km]<3> to the east southeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stanly County community of Bloomington.
Nova Scotia
This Bloomington lies 1,197 miles [1,926.4 km]<3> to the northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
Ohio
Clinton County
This Bloomington is located in Clinton County and lies 219 miles [352.4 km]<3> to the north northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Bloomington.
Oklahoma
Greer County
This Bloomington is located in Greer County and lies 815 miles [1,311.6 km]<3> to the west of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greer County community of Bloomington.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Bloomington.
Pennsylvania
Clearfield County
This Bloomington is located in Clearfield County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<3> to the northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clearfield County community of Bloomington.
Lackawanna County
This Bloomington is located in Lackawanna County and lies 615 miles [989.7 km] to the northeast of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lackawanna County community of Bloomington.
South Dakota
Charles Mix County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Charles Mix County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles Mix County community of Bloomington.
Texas
Victoria County
This Bloomington is located in Victoria County and lies 872 miles [1,403.3 km]<3> to the southwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Victoria County community of Bloomington.
Utah
Washington County
This Bloomington is located in Washington County and lies 1,565 miles [2,518.6 km]<3> to the west of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Bloomington.
West Virginia
Roane 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 West Virginia community of Bloomington [Roane County].
Wisconsin
Grant County
This Bloomington is located in Grant County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km]<3> to the north northwest of the Bloomington that is located in Pickett County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Bloomington.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bloomington ...
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.
Boom (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boom have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Bloomington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bloomington and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 92 miles [148.1 km]<3> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Bloomington to Nashville, with an average speed<6>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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 473 miles [761.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,340 miles [10,203.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,056 miles [11,355.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,932 miles [7,937.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
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 Bloomington 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 county. 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>
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 Bloomington, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 from Point A (ie- Bloomington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bloomington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5803, Longitude: -85.1927 In this case, the coordinates for Bloomington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Bloomington 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 312.83 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.74 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.905 degrees.