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Communities Also Named Ferndale ...

We found 31 communities that share the name Ferndale.

Within British Columbia, the name Ferndale is unique.

Beyond British Columbia, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 31 communities, six are located in Canada and 28 are in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Pulaski County
      • This Ferndale is located in Pulaski County and lies 1,958 miles [3,151.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pulaski County community of Ferndale.
    • California
      • Humboldt County
      • This Ferndale is located in Humboldt County and lies 929 miles [1,495.1 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humboldt County community of Ferndale.
    • Colorado
      • Jefferson County
      • This Ferndale is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,288 miles [2,072.8 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Ferndale.
    • Florida
      • Lake County
      • This Ferndale is located in Lake County and lies 2,685 miles [4,321.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Ferndale.
    • Hawaii
      • 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 Hawaii community of Ferndale.
    • Illinois
      • McHenry County
      • This Ferndale is located in McHenry County and lies 1,748 miles [2,813.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Ferndale.
    • Indiana
      • Parke County
      • This Ferndale is located in Parke County and lies 1,912 miles [3,077.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Parke County community of Ferndale.
    • Kentucky
      • Bell County
      • This Ferndale is located in Bell County and lies 2,188 miles [3,521.2 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of Ferndale.
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This Ferndale is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 2,351 miles [3,783.6 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Ferndale.
    • Michigan
      • Muskegon 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 Michigan community of Ferndale [Muskegon County].
      • Oakland County
      • This Ferndale is located in Oakland County and lies 1,945 miles [3,130.2 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oakland County community of Ferndale.
    • Montana
      • Flathead County
      • This Ferndale is located in Flathead County and lies 549 miles [883.5 km]<1> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Flathead County community of Ferndale.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Ferndale lies 2,545 miles [4,095.8 km]<1> to the east.
    • New York
      • Sullivan County
      • This Ferndale is located in Sullivan County and lies 2,314 miles [3,724 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Ferndale.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This Ferndale lies 2,919 miles [4,697.7 km]<1> to the east northeast.
    • North Carolina
      • Rockingham 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 Ferndale [Rockingham County].
    • Ohio
      • Lucas County
      • This Ferndale is located in Lucas County and lies 1,958 miles [3,151.1 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lucas County community of Ferndale.
    • Ontario
      • This Ferndale lies 1,918 miles [3,086.7 km]<1> to the east.
    • Oregon
      • Umatilla County
      • This Ferndale is located in Umatilla County and lies 581 miles [935 km]<1> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Umatilla County community of Ferndale.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks County
      • This Ferndale is located in Bucks County and lies 2,349 miles [3,780.3 km]<1> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Ferndale.
      • Cambria County
      • This Ferndale is located in Cambria County and lies 2,209 miles [3,555 km] to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cambria County community of Ferndale.
      • 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 Ferndale [Chester County].
      • Lehigh 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 Ferndale [Lehigh County].
      • Northumberland County
      • This Ferndale is located in Northumberland County and lies 2,282 miles [3,672.5 km] to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northumberland County community of Ferndale.
      • Schuylkill County
      • This Ferndale is located in Schuylkill County and lies 2,291 miles [3,687 km] to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Ferndale.
    • South Carolina
      • Charleston County
      • This Ferndale is located in Charleston County and lies 2,523 miles [4,060.4 km]<1> to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Ferndale.
      • Florence County
      • This Ferndale is located in Florence County and lies 2,461 miles [3,960.6 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Florence County community of Ferndale.
      • Spartanburg County
      • This Ferndale is located in Spartanburg County and lies 2,339 miles [3,764.3 km] to the east southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Ferndale.
    • Washington
      • King 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 Washington community of Ferndale [King County].
      • Whatcom County
      • This Ferndale is located in Whatcom County and lies 354 miles [569.7 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whatcom County community of Ferndale.
    • West Virginia
      • Boone 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 West Virginia community of Ferndale [Boone County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Ferndale ...

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.

  • Bonnet Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Bridge
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bridge came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridge
  • Foreman
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foreman came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foreman
  • Island Cache
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island Cache came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Cache
  • Salmon Valley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salmon Valley came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon Valley
  • Shady Valley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shady Valley came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Valley
  • Willow River
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow River came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow River
  • Wolverine
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wolverine came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolverine

How Far From Ferndale to ...

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 Ferndale to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ferndale and extending to:

  • Victoria, which is the Provincial Capital of British Columbia, lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Ferndale to Victoria, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 22 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 15 days.
  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 2,128 miles [3,424.7 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 84 days and walking would take 121 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,359 miles [10,233.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,116 miles [11,452.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,291 miles [8,515 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ferndale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ferndale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 53.9833, Longitude: -122.4833    
<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 Ferndale, 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 Ferndale 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>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<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 Ferndale 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 341.184 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 343.118 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.213 degrees.




 

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