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37.292078, -80.100041
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We found 44 communities that share the name Mitchell.
Within Virginia, the name Mitchell is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 44 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 44 communities, 41 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Bullock County
This Mitchell is located in Bullock County and lies 480 miles [772.5 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bullock County community of Mitchell.
Arkansas
Clay County
This Mitchell is located in Clay County and lies 563 miles [906.1 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Mitchell.
Fulton County
This Mitchell is located in Fulton County and lies 661 miles [1,063.8 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Mitchell.
Colorado
Eagle County
This Mitchell is located in Eagle County and lies 1,422 miles [2,288.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Eagle County community of Mitchell.
Weld County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Mitchell [Weld County].
Georgia
Glascock County
This Mitchell is located in Glascock County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glascock County community of Mitchell.
Idaho
Bingham County
This Mitchell is located in Bingham County and lies 1,725 miles [2,776.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bingham County community of Mitchell.
Illinois
Franklin County
This Mitchell is located in Franklin County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Mitchell.
Madison County
This Mitchell is located in Madison County and lies 552 miles [888.4 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Mitchell.
Indiana
Lawrence County
This Mitchell is located in Lawrence County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Mitchell.
Iowa
Mitchell County
This Mitchell is located in Mitchell County and lies 789 miles [1,269.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mitchell County community of Mitchell.
Kansas
Rice County
This Mitchell is located in Rice County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rice County community of Mitchell.
Louisiana
Sabine Parish
This Mitchell is located in Sabine Parish and lies 856 miles [1,377.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sabine Parish community of Mitchell.
Tangipahoa Parish
This Mitchell is located in Tangipahoa Parish and lies 741 miles [1,192.5 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tangipahoa Parish community of Mitchell.
Manitoba
This Mitchell lies 1,183 miles [1,903.9 km]<1> to the northwest.
Michigan
Antrim County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mitchell [Antrim County].
Grand Traverse 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 Michigan community of Mitchell [Grand Traverse County].
Missaukee 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 Michigan community of Mitchell [Missaukee County].
Minnesota
Saint Louis County
This Mitchell is located in Saint Louis County and lies 955 miles [1,536.9 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Mitchell.
Mississippi
Hancock County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mitchell [Hancock County].
Tippah County
This Mitchell is located in Tippah County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tippah County community of Mitchell.
Union County
This Mitchell is located in Union County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Mitchell.
Missouri
Phelps County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Phelps County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Phelps County community of Mitchell.
Saint Francois County
This Mitchell is located in Saint Francois County and lies 574 miles [923.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francois County community of Mitchell.
Montana
Lewis and Clark County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Mitchell [Lewis and Clark County].
Nebraska
Scotts Bluff County
This Mitchell is located in Scotts Bluff County and lies 1,296 miles [2,085.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scotts Bluff County community of Mitchell.
New Mexico
Lea County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Lea County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lea County community of Mitchell.
New York
Ontario County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mitchell [Ontario County].
Ontario
This Mitchell lies 430 miles [692 km]<1> to the north.
Oregon
Crook County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mitchell [Crook County].
Linn County
This Mitchell is located in Linn County and lies 2,251 miles [3,622.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Linn County community of Mitchell.
Polk County
This Mitchell is located in Polk County and lies 2,279 miles [3,667.7 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Mitchell.
Wheeler County
This Mitchell is located in Wheeler County and lies 2,126 miles [3,421.5 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wheeler County community of Mitchell.
Quebec
This Mitchell lies 721 miles [1,160.3 km]<1> to the north northeast.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mitchell [Greenville County].
South Dakota
Davison County
This Mitchell is located in Davison County and lies 1,037 miles [1,668.9 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davison County community of Mitchell.
Tennessee
Robertson County
This Mitchell is located in Robertson County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Robertson County community of Mitchell.
Texas
Eastland County
This Mitchell is located in Eastland County and lies 1,125 miles [1,810.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Eastland County community of Mitchell.
Lipscomb County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mitchell [Lipscomb County].
Starr County
This Mitchell is located in Starr County and lies 1,327 miles [2,135.6 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Starr County community of Mitchell.
Utah
Weber County
This Mitchell is located in Weber County and lies 1,714 miles [2,758.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Mitchell.
Washington
Grant County
This Mitchell is located in Grant County and lies 2,088 miles [3,360.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Mitchell.
West Virginia
Pendleton County
This Mitchell is located in Pendleton County and lies 95 miles [152.9 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pendleton County community of Mitchell.
Wisconsin
Fond du Lac County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mitchell [Fond du Lac County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mitchell ...
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.
Bear Rock (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear Rock 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 Mitchell to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mitchell and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 147 miles [236.6 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Mitchell to Richmond, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 199 miles [320.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,097 miles [9,812.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,802 miles [10,946.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,679 miles [7,530.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mitchell) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mitchell. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2921, Longitude: -80.1000 In this case, the coordinates for Mitchell have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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 Mitchell 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.
<3>
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 Mitchell, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 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 Mitchell 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 309.765 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.334 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.561 degrees.