Nearest Communities to Lafayette Square,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lafayette Square, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lafayette Square:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals were in the next to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the to the north.
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 east contained birth and death records; the to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring , we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lafayette Square) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lafayette Square. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6195, Longitude: -90.2146 In this case, the coordinates for Lafayette Square have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |