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Nearest Communities to Radnor Heights,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, 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 Radnor Heights.<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Radnor Heights) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Radnor Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8890, Longitude: -77.0730       In this case, the coordinates for Radnor Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).