Nearest Communities to Garden City,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Garden City, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Garden City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Garden City.<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- Garden City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Garden City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2318, Longitude: -79.9284 In this case, the coordinates for Garden City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |