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37.283191, -80.034484
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We found twenty communities that are also named Park Place.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Park Place.
Beyond Virginia, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Norfolk City
This Park Place is located in Norfolk City and lies 208 miles [334.7 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk City community of Park Place.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Park Place is located in Jefferson County and lies 460 miles [740.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Park Place.
Arkansas
Lee County
This Park Place is located in Lee County and lies 613 miles [986.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Park Place.
Georgia
Douglas County
This Park Place is located in Douglas County and lies 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Park Place.
Paulding County
This Park Place is located in Paulding County and lies 350 miles [563.3 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Park Place.
Illinois
Will County
This Park Place is located in Will County and lies 527 miles [848.1 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Park Place.
Louisiana
Saint Tammany Parish
This Park Place is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 738 miles [1,187.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Park Place.
North Carolina
Union County
This Park Place is located in Union County and lies 161 miles [259.1 km]<1> to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Park Place.
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Park Place is located in Hamilton County and lies 275 miles [442.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Park Place.
Mahoning County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Mahoning County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mahoning County community of Park Place.
Oregon
Clackamas County
This Park Place is located in Clackamas County and lies 2,247 miles [3,616.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clackamas County community of Park Place.
Pennsylvania
Delaware 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 Park Place [Delaware County].
Lackawanna 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 Park Place [Lackawanna County].
Schuylkill County
This Park Place is located in Schuylkill County and lies 323 miles [519.8 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Park Place.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Park Place is located in Anderson County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Park Place.
Greenville County
This Park Place is located in Greenville County and lies 212 miles [341.2 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Park Place.
Texas
Galveston County
This Park Place is located in Galveston County and lies 1,023 miles [1,646.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Galveston County community of Park Place.
Harris County
This Park Place is located in Harris County and lies 1,020 miles [1,641.5 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Park Place.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Park Place is located in Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County community of Park Place.
Weber County
This Park Place is located in Weber County and lies 1,718 miles [2,764.9 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Park Place.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Park Place ...
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.
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 Park Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Park Place and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 143 miles [230.1 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Park Place to Richmond, with an average speed<4>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 197 miles [317 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,094 miles [9,807.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,800 miles [10,943.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,677 miles [7,526.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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- Park Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Park Place, 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 Park Place 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>
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.
<5>
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 Park Place to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Park Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2832, Longitude: -80.0345 In this case, the coordinates for Park Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.727 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.288 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.536 degrees.