Nearest Communities to Buena Vista,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Buena Vista, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Buena Vista:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Buena Vista.<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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Buena Vista) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buena Vista. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2676, Longitude: -79.9250 In this case, the coordinates for Buena Vista have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |