Nearest Communities to Lake Purdy,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lake Purdy, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lake Purdy:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<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 '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- Lake Purdy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lake Purdy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3251, Longitude: -73.6721 In this case, the coordinates for Lake Purdy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |