Nearest Communities to Fort Jefferson,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Jefferson, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Jefferson:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Fort Jefferson.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fort Jefferson is located in Monroe County.
The following 2 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Monroe County: Collier & Miami-Dade.
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- Fort Jefferson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Jefferson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.6279, Longitude: -82.8729 In this case, the coordinates for Fort Jefferson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |