Nearest Communities to Columbia Heights,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Columbia Heights, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Columbia Heights:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 south.
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 south 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 from Columbia Heights.<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Columbia Heights) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Columbia Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8576, Longitude: -77.1211 In this case, the coordinates for Columbia Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |