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we pass this GPS location for Westfield:
37.292079, -80.075596
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We found 41 communities that share the name Westfield.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Westfield.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 38 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Albemarle County
This Westfield is located in Albemarle County and lies 102 miles [164.2 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Westfield.
Bristol City
This Westfield is located in Bristol City and lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bristol City community of Westfield.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Westfield is located in Jefferson County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Westfield.
Tallapoosa County
This Westfield is located in Tallapoosa County and lies 447 miles [719.4 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tallapoosa County community of Westfield.
California
Los Angeles 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 California community of Westfield [Los Angeles County].
Tulare County
This Westfield is located in Tulare County and lies 2,143 miles [3,448.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tulare County community of Westfield.
Connecticut
Middlesex County
This Westfield is located in Middlesex County and lies 492 miles [791.8 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Westfield.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Westfield is located in New Castle County and lies 292 miles [469.9 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Westfield.
Georgia
Bibb County
This Westfield is located in Bibb County and lies 371 miles [597.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Westfield.
Cobb County
This Westfield is located in Cobb County and lies 331 miles [532.7 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Westfield.
Illinois
Clark County
This Westfield is located in Clark County and lies 453 miles [729 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Westfield.
Cook County
This Westfield is located in Cook County and lies 529 miles [851.3 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Westfield.
Will 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 Illinois community of Westfield [Will County].
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Westfield is located in Hamilton County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Westfield.
Saint Joseph County
This Westfield is located in Saint Joseph County and lies 451 miles [725.8 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Joseph County community of Westfield.
Iowa
Plymouth County
This Westfield is located in Plymouth County and lies 949 miles [1,527.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Westfield.
Poweshiek County
This Westfield is located in Poweshiek County and lies 740 miles [1,190.9 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Poweshiek County community of Westfield.
Kansas
Decatur 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 Kansas community of Westfield [Decatur County].
McPherson 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 Westfield [McPherson County].
Wyandotte 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 Westfield [Wyandotte County].
Louisiana
Assumption Parish
This Westfield is located in Assumption Parish and lies 808 miles [1,300.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Assumption Parish community of Westfield.
Maine
Aroostook County
This Westfield is located in Aroostook County and lies 892 miles [1,435.5 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aroostook County community of Westfield.
Massachusetts
Hampden County
This Westfield is located in Hampden County and lies 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of Westfield.
Mississippi
Holmes County
This Westfield is located in Holmes County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of Westfield.
Missouri
Dallas County
This Westfield is located in Dallas County and lies 705 miles [1,134.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of Westfield.
New Brunswick
This Westfield lies 905 miles [1,456.5 km]<1> to the northeast.
New Jersey
Union County
This Westfield is located in Union County and lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Westfield.
New York
Chautauqua County
This Westfield is located in Chautauqua County and lies 348 miles [560.1 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chautauqua County community of Westfield.
North Carolina
Surry County
This Westfield is located in Surry County and lies 60 miles [96.6 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Surry County community of Westfield.
North Dakota
Emmons County
This Westfield is located in Emmons County and lies 1,195 miles [1,923.2 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Emmons County community of Westfield.
Nova Scotia
This Westfield lies 925 miles [1,488.6 km]<1> to the northeast.
Ohio
Columbiana 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 Ohio community of Westfield [Columbiana County].
Morrow County
This Westfield is located in Morrow County and lies 267 miles [429.7 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morrow County community of Westfield.
Ontario
This Westfield lies 455 miles [732.3 km]<1> to the north.
Pennsylvania
Tioga County
This Westfield is located in Tioga County and lies 346 miles [556.8 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tioga County community of Westfield.
Texas
Harris County
This Westfield is located in Harris County and lies 1,035 miles [1,665.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Westfield.
Wharton 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 Westfield [Wharton County].
Vermont
Orleans County
This Westfield is located in Orleans County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of Westfield.
Washington
Douglas 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 Washington community of Westfield [Douglas County].
West Virginia
Lewis County
This Westfield is located in Lewis County and lies 126 miles [202.8 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Westfield.
Wisconsin
Marquette County
This Westfield is located in Marquette County and lies 670 miles [1,078.3 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marquette County community of Westfield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Westfield ...
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.
Deep Dell (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deep Dell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Westfield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Westfield and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Westfield 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 198 miles [318.7 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 6,096 miles [9,810.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,801 miles [10,945.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,678 miles [7,528.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Westfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Westfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2921, Longitude: -80.0756 In this case, the coordinates for Westfield 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 Westfield 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>
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.
<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 Westfield to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.751 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.317 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.55 degrees.