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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Brooks Acres 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 Brooks Acres. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Brooks Acres. Our list contains 38 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Brooks Acres.

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 Brooks Acres.  

Newspapers Neighboring Brooks Acres ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Brooks Acres.

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

  • Published In Bailey Springs  ...
    • The Bailey Springs Journal (from 1897)
  • Published In Leighton [Colbert County] ...
    • The Leighton News (from 1890)
  • Published In Muscle Shoals [Colbert County] ...
  • Published In Florence  ...
    • We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Florence. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Florence
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Brooks Acres. This extended list includes all the papers from Florence. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Brooks Acres

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Brooks Acres) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brooks Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8348, Longitude: -87.5053       In this case, the coordinates for Brooks Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).