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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Big Lake.

Our newspaper information for Big Lake is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Big Lake. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Big Lake. Our list contains 66 papers that were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Big Lake.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Big Lake.  

Newspapers Neighboring Big Lake ...

The following newspapers were published within 28 miles [45.1 km] of Big Lake.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Big Lake.

  • Published In Chugiak [Anchorage Municipality] ...
  • Published In Wasilla [Matanuska-Susitna Borough] ...
    • Table Talks (from 192?)
    • The Muskeg Journal (from 1964)
    • The Valley Press (from 1984)
    • The Valley Sun (from 1978)
  • Published In Eagle River [Anchorage Municipality] ...
    • The Eagle River Sun (from 1980)
    • The Eagle (from 1961)
  • Published In Anchorage [Anchorage Municipality] ...
    • We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Anchorage. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Anchorage
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Big Lake. This extended list includes all the papers from Anchorage. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Big Lake
  • Published In Fort Richardson [Anchorage Municipality] ...
  • Published In Palmer [Matanuska-Susitna Borough] ...

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- Big Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 61.5128, Longitude: -149.9833