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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Five Points East.

Our newspaper information for Five Points East 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 Five Points East. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Points East. Our list contains 186 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Five Points East.

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 Five Points East.  

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

Newspapers Neighboring Five Points East ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Five Points East.

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

  • Published In Gate City  ...
    • The Humming Bird (from 1892)
  • Published In Avondale  ...
    • The Avondale Budget (from 1892)
    • The Silent Eye (from 1901)
  • Published In Inglenook  ...
    • Inglenook Home (from 1913)
  • 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 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Five Points East. 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 Five Points East.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Five Points East) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Points East. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5312, Longitude: -86.7086       In this case, the coordinates for Five Points East have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).