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Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Blennerhassett Heights (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Blennerhassett Heights. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Blennerhassett Heights ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Blennerhassett Heights: Blennerhassett Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us .
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Blennerhassett Heights is located in Wood County .
To see how the shape of West Virginia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wood County : Athens (OH) , Meigs (OH) , Washington (OH) , Jackson , Pleasants , Ritchie & Wirt .
Below are the counties that are near Blennerhassett Heights. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Blennerhassett Heights:
Wood County (The home county of Blennerhassett Heights)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Parkersburg (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Blennerhassett (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Blennerhassett is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blennerhassett Lubeck (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Lubeck is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lubeck Pleasant View (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Pleasant View is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View Vienna (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Washington (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
North Hills (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
North Hills is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
Eli (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Eli is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli Mineral Acres (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Mineral Acres is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Acres Mineral Wells (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Boaz (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Boaz is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boaz Valley Mills (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Valley Mills is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Mills Kanawha (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Kanawha is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha Calhoun County
Freed (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Freed is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freed Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Beatysville ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Beatysville is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatysville Browning ‑ Historic(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Browning is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browning Willowdale (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Willowdale is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowdale Neptune (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Neptune is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune Mozelle ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Mozelle is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mozelle Medina (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Medina is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medina Skull Run (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Skull Run is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skull Run Sherman (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Sherman is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Garfield (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Garfield is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Odaville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Odaville is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odaville Wilding (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Wilding is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilding Ravenswood (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Sandyville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Mason County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Hartford City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Hartford City is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford City Population from the 2020 Census: 593 people
New Haven (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Mason (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Clifton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Clifton is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Pleasants County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Willow Island (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Willow Island is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Island Horseneck (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Horseneck is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseneck Schultz (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Schultz is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schultz Belmont (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Belmont is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Population from the 2020 Census: 853 people
Saint Marys (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
DeLong (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
DeLong is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeLong Adlai (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Adlai is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adlai Sugar Valley (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Sugar Valley is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Valley Algeria ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Algeria is located in Pleasants County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algeria Ritchie County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Petroleum (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Petroleum is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petroleum Rusk (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Rusk is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rusk Cisco (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Cisco is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cisco Cairo (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Oxbow (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Oxbow is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow Cornwallis (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Cornwallis is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornwallis Cantwell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Cantwell is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantwell Cokeleys (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Cokeleys is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokeleys League (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
League is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for League Ellenboro (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Harrisville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Smithville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Smithville is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithville Hannahdale (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Hannahdale is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannahdale Roane County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Reedy (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Reedy is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedy Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Millard (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Millard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard Wirt County
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Greencastle (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Greencastle is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greencastle Newark (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Newark is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Windy (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Windy is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Freeport (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Freeport is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeport Elizabeth (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Palestine (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Palestine is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palestine Peewee (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Peewee is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peewee Burning Springs (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Burning Springs is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Lucile (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Lucile is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucile Creston (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Creston is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Athens County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Youba (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Youba is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youba Coolville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Beebe (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Beebe is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe Vanderhoof (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Vanderhoof is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanderhoof Big Run (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Big Run is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Run Stewart (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Stewart is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart Guysville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Guysville is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guysville Armadale (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Armadale is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armadale Amesville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Mudsock ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Mudsock is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mudsock Carsey Town (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Carsey Town is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carsey Town Pratts Fork (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Pratts Fork is located in Athens County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratts Fork Shade (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Meigs County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Tuppers Plains (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Keno (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Keno is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keno Bashan (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Bashan is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bashan Portland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Spiller (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Spiller is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spiller Dorcas (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Dorcas is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorcas Racine (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Welshtown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Welshtown is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welshtown Syracuse (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Pomeroy (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Plants (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Plants is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plants Thomas Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Thomas Village is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas Village Letart Falls (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Letart Falls is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letart Falls Morgan County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Chesterhill (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Stockport (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Todds (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Todds is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todds Joy (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Joy is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy Hackney (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Hackney is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackney Westland (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Westland is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westland Wrightstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Wrightstown is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wrightstown Neelysville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Neelysville is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neelysville Elliott Crossroads (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Elliott Crossroads is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott Crossroads Reinersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Reinersville is located in Morgan County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reinersville Malta (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
McConnelsville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Noble County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Dungannon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Dungannon is located in Noble County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dungannon Crooked Tree (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Crooked Tree is located in Noble County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooked Tree Dexter City (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Dexter City is located in Noble County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dexter City Population from the 2020 Census: 124 people
South Olive (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
South Olive is located in Noble County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Olive Harriettsville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Harriettsville is located in Noble County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harriettsville Washington County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Belpre (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Belpre is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belpre Population from the 2020 Census: 6,356 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belpre <1>
Rockland (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Rockland is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland Porterfield (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Porterfield is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterfield Corner (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Corner is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Redbush (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Redbush is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbush Vincent (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Vincent is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Fillmore (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Fillmore is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore Decaturville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Decaturville is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Decaturville Napier (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Napier is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napier Barlow (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Barlow is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow Harmar (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Harmar is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmar Marietta (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Grand View (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Grand View is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Blennerhassett Heights, see our County-by-County Page for Blennerhassett Heights .
Cemeteries Near Blennerhassett Heights ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blennerhassett Heights.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Blennerhassett Heights - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Blennerhassett Heights covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Maddox Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Sunset Memory Gardens (Less than 2 miles to the south)
River Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Hill Cemetery The River Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
River Hill UMC Cemetery Riverhill Cemetery Riverhill UMC Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1372269 <2>
Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Tracewell Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Posey Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Cedarville Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Rockland Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Lubeck Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Wright Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Evergreen Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Foley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (783 more) ...
Mathews Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Tavenner Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Holliday Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Blennerhassett Heights in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Blennerhassett Heights.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Blennerhassett Heights, with the one closest to Blennerhassett Heights listed first.
Newport (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Newport is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Rockland (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Rockland is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland Parkersburg (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Belpre (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Belpre is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belpre Population from the 2020 Census: 6,356 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belpre <1>
Blennerhassett (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Blennerhassett is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blennerhassett Lubeck (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Lubeck is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lubeck Porterfield (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Porterfield is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterfield Scott ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Scott is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Dombey ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Dombey is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dombey Vienna (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Corner (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Corner is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Washington (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Continue List (13 more) ...
Eli (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Eli is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli Dunham (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Dunham is located in Washington County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunham Little Hocking (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Blennerhassett Heights. See our List of 1890's Communities around Blennerhassett Heights .
Newspapers Published in Blennerhassett Heights ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blennerhassett Heights.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blennerhassett Heights, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Blennerhassett Heights.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Blennerhassett Heights:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Wood County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Calhoun County Jackson County Mason County Pleasants County Ritchie County Roane County Wirt County Athens County Meigs County Morgan County Noble County Washington County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Blennerhassett Heights. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Wood County: https://woodcountywv.com/
The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Blennerhassett Heights, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 from Point A (ie- Blennerhassett Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.