Nearest Communities to Benton Park West,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Benton Park West, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Benton Park West:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the to the south.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring in addition to the in which they lived: their home contained property and probate records; the to the west contained birth and death records; the to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring , we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Benton Park West) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Benton Park West. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6007, Longitude: -90.2265 In this case, the coordinates for Benton Park West have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |