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Nearest Communities to Cherry Acres,
Listed -By-

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cherry Acres, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cherry Acres:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home . During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Cherry Acres.<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 from Point A (ie- Cherry Acres) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cherry Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0410, Longitude: -76.3433       In this case, the coordinates for Cherry Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).