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We found 39 communities that share the name Locust Grove.
There are four communities within Virginia that are also named Locust Grove.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Chesterfield County
This Locust Grove is located in Chesterfield County and lies 74 miles [119.1 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesterfield County community of Locust Grove.
King and Queen County
This Locust Grove is located in King and Queen County and lies 82 miles [132 km]<1> to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King and Queen County community of Locust Grove.
Orange County
This Locust Grove is located in Orange County and lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Locust Grove.
Shenandoah County
This Locust Grove is located in Shenandoah County and lies 47 miles [75.6 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shenandoah County community of Locust Grove.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Independence County
This Locust Grove is located in Independence County and lies 749 miles [1,205.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Independence County community of Locust Grove.
Georgia
Henry County
This Locust Grove is located in Henry County and lies 453 miles [729 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Locust Grove.
Illinois
Franklin 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 Locust Grove [Franklin County].
Indiana
Wayne County
This Locust Grove is located in Wayne County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Locust Grove.
Kansas
Atchison 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 Locust Grove [Atchison County].
Kentucky
Clark County
This Locust Grove is located in Clark County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Locust Grove.
Pendleton County
This Locust Grove is located in Pendleton County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pendleton County community of Locust Grove.
Maryland
Allegany County
This Locust Grove is located in Allegany County and lies 114 miles [183.5 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegany County community of Locust Grove.
Frederick County
This Locust Grove is located in Frederick County and lies 120 miles [193.1 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Locust Grove.
Garrett County
This Locust Grove is located in Garrett County and lies 123 miles [197.9 km] to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garrett County community of Locust Grove.
Kent County
This Locust Grove is located in Kent County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km] to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Locust Grove.
Talbot County
This Locust Grove is located in Talbot County and lies 135 miles [217.3 km] to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talbot County community of Locust Grove.
Washington County
This Locust Grove is located in Washington County and lies 106 miles [170.6 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Locust Grove.
Mississippi
Union County
This Locust Grove is located in Union County and lies 632 miles [1,017.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Locust Grove.
New Jersey
Camden County
This Locust Grove is located in Camden County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Locust Grove.
New Mexico
DeBaca County
This community is historic<2> and although located in DeBaca County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeBaca County community of Locust Grove.
New York
Lewis County
This Locust Grove is located in Lewis County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Locust Grove.
Monroe 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 Locust Grove [Monroe County].
Nassau County
This Locust Grove is located in Nassau County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km] to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nassau County community of Locust Grove.
North Carolina
Yancey 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 North Carolina community of Locust Grove [Yancey County].
Ohio
Adams County
This Locust Grove is located in Adams County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Locust Grove.
Clark 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 Ohio community of Locust Grove [Clark County].
Licking County
This Locust Grove is located in Licking County and lies 252 miles [405.6 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Licking County community of Locust Grove.
Mahoning County
This Locust Grove is located in Mahoning County and lies 234 miles [376.6 km] to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mahoning County community of Locust Grove.
Oklahoma
Mayes County
This Locust Grove is located in Mayes County and lies 927 miles [1,491.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mayes County community of Locust Grove.
Oregon
Sherman County
This Locust Grove is located in Sherman County and lies 2,212 miles [3,559.9 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sherman County community of Locust Grove.
Pennsylvania
Centre County
This Locust Grove is located in Centre County and lies 197 miles [317 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Centre County community of Locust Grove.
Chester 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 Pennsylvania community of Locust Grove [Chester County].
Fulton 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 Pennsylvania community of Locust Grove [Fulton County].
Lancaster County
This Locust Grove is located in Lancaster County and lies 170 miles [273.6 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Locust Grove.
Snyder County
This Locust Grove is located in Snyder County and lies 198 miles [318.7 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snyder County community of Locust Grove.
York County
This Locust Grove is located in York County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km] to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Locust Grove.
Tennessee
Dyer County
This Locust Grove is located in Dyer County and lies 607 miles [976.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dyer County community of Locust Grove.
Texas
Lipscomb County
This Locust Grove is located in Lipscomb County and lies 1,211 miles [1,948.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lipscomb County community of Locust Grove.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Locust Grove is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,780 miles [2,864.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Locust Grove.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Locust Grove ...
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.
Branchland (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Branchland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Locust Grove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Locust Grove and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Locust Grove to Richmond, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 97 miles [156.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,994 miles [9,646.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,699 miles [10,781 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,576 miles [7,364.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
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 from Point A (ie- Locust Grove) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Locust Grove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0427, Longitude: -78.4606
<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 Locust Grove, 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Locust Grove 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>
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 Locust Grove 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 308.774 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.315 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.626 degrees.