Nearest Communities to Idlewilde,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Idlewilde, on a -by- basis.  To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Idlewilde:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home .  During their lives, most hospitals were in the next  to the east.  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 east 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 Idlewilde.<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  obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Idlewilde) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Idlewilde.  The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7532, Longitude: -79.9837        In this case, the coordinates for Idlewilde have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |