Nearest Communities to Chatham Hill,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Chatham Hill, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Chatham Hill:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals 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 starting from Chatham Hill.<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chatham Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chatham Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3010, Longitude: -79.9875 In this case, the coordinates for Chatham Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |