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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Bel Air.

Our newspaper information for Bel Air 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 Bel Air. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Bel Air. Our list contains 189 papers that were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Bel Air.

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 Bel Air.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Bel Air ...

The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km] of Bel Air.

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

  • Published In Gate City  ...
    • The Humming Bird (from 1892)
  • Published In Inglenook  ...
    • Inglenook Home (from 1913)
  • Published In Avondale  ...
    • The Avondale Budget (from 1892)
    • The Silent Eye (from 1901)
  • Published In Birmingham  ...
    • We know of 186 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Birmingham. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Birmingham
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Bel Air. This extended list includes all the papers from Birmingham. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Bel Air.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Trussville  ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bel Air) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bel Air. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5851, Longitude: -86.7214       In this case, the coordinates for Bel Air have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).