Nearest Communities to Five Forks,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Five Forks, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Five Forks:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals and 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 starting from Five Forks.<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- Five Forks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2801, Longitude: -77.2950 In this case, the coordinates for Five Forks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |