Nearest Communities to Swarthmore Place,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Swarthmore Place, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Swarthmore Place:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home . During their lives, most 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 Swarthmore Place.<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 from Point A (ie- Swarthmore Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Swarthmore Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3035, Longitude: -79.9775 In this case, the coordinates for Swarthmore Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |