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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Blanton 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 Blanton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Blanton. Our list contains 49 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Blanton.

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 Blanton.  

Newspapers Neighboring Blanton ...

The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Blanton.

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

  • Published In Lanett [Chambers County] ...
  • Published In Opelika  ...
    • We know of 40 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Opelika. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Opelika
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Blanton. This extended list includes all the papers from Opelika. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Blanton
  • Published In Hamilton [Harris County] ...

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- Blanton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blanton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7342, Longitude: -85.1338       In this case, the coordinates for Blanton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).