Nearest Communities to Roanoke,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Roanoke, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Roanoke:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home . During their lives, most doctors and 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 Roanoke.<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Roanoke) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Roanoke. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2718, Longitude: -79.9424 |