Nearest Communities to East Haven,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to East Haven, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for East Haven:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home . During their lives, most doctors were in the next to the east. 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 east 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 East Haven.<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- East Haven) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in East Haven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8935, Longitude: -76.2819 In this case, the coordinates for East Haven have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |