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Nearest Communities to Glen Rock,
Listed -By-

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 west 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Glen Rock.<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- Glen Rock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Glen Rock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8504, Longitude: -76.1985       In this case, the coordinates for Glen Rock have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).