Nearest Communities to Hewitt Farm,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hewitt Farm, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hewitt Farm:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home . During their lives, most 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Hewitt Farm.<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hewitt Farm) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hewitt Farm. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9257, Longitude: -76.2269 In this case, the coordinates for Hewitt Farm have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |