Tahoe Girl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ooh. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont are > contiguous, so there you go! > > TG
Does SL know people in those states Exist, let alone some of 'Mormons' who wish to attend their indoctrination meetings?
Side note: I lived in Toledo for a short time;
Toledo members were 'assigned' to the Columbus Temple, else they didn't get 'credit'; 141 miles each way.
The Detroit temple (actually in the upscale Bloomfield Hills) is 80 miles away: Guess which temple ChurchCo members are told not to make 'temple trips' to...
Take as long as you need!
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[|] Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree with Tahoe Girl > > Anyway, there are 7 US states without temples > > Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, > Delaware, West Virginia, and Mississippi.
American Samoa has a temple but most of the north east of the USA and east of Canada doesn't.
Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Bismarck Temple was announced about 30 years > ago and dedicated 26 years ago. Try to keep up. :)
I think it is a myth. Temperatures range from 60 below to 121 above? The #1 producer of PINTO BEANS in North America?
Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All three of those states are tiny (NH, VT) or > small (ME) and have small LDS populations. It is a > short drive from all of them to Boston.
Montpellier, VT to Boston, MA is listed as 291 Km (181 miles) on Google, that's not, at least in my book, 'a short drive'...
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I don't know if temple districts are still allowed to cross international borders. Until the Winnipeg temple was built, Dryden ON was assigned to the St Paul, MN temple. That wasn't that many years ago.
Montpelier, VT is closer to Montreal, QC than it is to Boston. In fact all of northern VT and NE NY are closer to Montreal than to NYC or Boston, MA or Rochester NY.
Maine, however is a larger state than I gave it credit for. All the congregations in the northern two thirds of Maine are farther from Boston than Montpelier is. The far northern congregations are actually closer to Halifax, NS temple.
BTW, I'm using Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces, they are also two letters, and designed not to conflict with any US postal abbreviations. That is why Manitoba is MB. Turns out all of the other letters in Manitoba were already taken, except for the B (MA, MN, MI, MT, MO)
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Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't know if temple districts are still allowed > to cross international borders. Until the Winnipeg > temple was built, Dryden ON was assigned to the St > Paul, MN temple. That wasn't that many years ago. > > Montpelier, VT is closer to Montreal, QC than it > is to Boston. In fact all of northern VT and NE NY > are closer to Montreal than to NYC or Boston, MA > or Rochester NY. > > Maine, however is a larger state than I gave it > credit for. All the congregations in the northern > two thirds of Maine are farther from Boston than > Montpelier is. The far northern congregations are > actually closer to Halifax, NS temple. > > BTW, I'm using Canadian postal abbreviations for > provinces, they are also two letters, and designed > not to conflict with any US postal abbreviations. > That is why Manitoba is MB. Turns out all of the > other letters in Manitoba were already taken, > except for the B (MA, MN, MI, MT, MO)
I grew up in NH, right on the border with VT, almost exactly halfway between Boston and Montreal. At night we could pick up the French radio stations from Quebec.
They are also as traditional New England Yankee as you can get. I can't imagine that Mormonism would be terribly popular in those states. They're the equivalent of rural Utah in terms of isolation (although Portland, ME has grown a great deal since the pandemic, with a good number of Boston people fleeing there.)
GNPE got me thinking, in the US and Canada, what are the longest rides from an existing LDS congregation to the nearest temple. I made my best guess as to which temple a congregation would be assigned to. I usually picked the physically closest one, though often that is not the case, so take these distances as minimums. The actual temple a congregation is assigned to may be even farther away.
Table format: Congregation, temple city, driving distance in miles (sorry, Canadians) I may have accidentally put down air miles on a few of the distances. Not going to go back and double check.
Mobile AL, Birmingham AL 259 miles Burns OR to Boise ID 187 miles Winnipeg MB to Thompson MB 474 miles St Johns NL to Halifax NS 927 miles (includes ferry miles) Timmins ON to Toronto ON 427 miles Thunder Bay ON to Winnipeg MB 435 miles Plentywood MT to Billings MT 356 miles North Platte NE to Omaha NE 281 miles Warroad MN to St Paul MN 372 miles Sioux Falls SD to Omaha NE 181 miles Guymon OK to Oklahoma City OK 264 miles Ft McMurray AB to Edmonton AB 276 miles Prince Rupert BC to Vancouver BC 930 miles (465 miles flying) Juneau AK to Anchorage AK 842 miles driving 572 flying
edit to add my old stomping grounds: Fargo ND to Bismarck ND 196 miles Grand Forks ND to Bismarck ND 265 miles Williston ND to Bismarck ND 226 miles Those are the four biggest cities in the state, all with multiple wards.
Montpelier VT has it easy. 181 miles to Boston. :)
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There’s one in Nauvoo, just outside Iowa state line, one in Omaha, just across the river on the other side of the state, and one under construction in Des Moines, dead center of the state. And Iowa is not that big of a state.