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Nearest Communities to Poquoson Shores,
Listed -By-

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

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 from Poquoson Shores.<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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Poquoson Shores) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Poquoson Shores. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1543, Longitude: -76.4058       In this case, the coordinates for Poquoson Shores have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).