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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Houstontown 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 Houstontown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Houstontown. Our list contains 38 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Houstontown.

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 Houstontown.  

Newspapers Neighboring Houstontown ...

The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of Houstontown.

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

  • Published In Rogersville  ...
  • Published In Bailey Springs  ...
    • The Bailey Springs Journal (from 1897)
  • Published In Leighton [Colbert County] ...
    • The Leighton News (from 1890)
  • Published In Town Creek [Lawrence County] ...
  • Published In Muscle Shoals [Colbert County] ...
  • Published In Courtland [Lawrence 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 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Houstontown. 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 Houstontown

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- Houstontown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houstontown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8273, Longitude: -87.4350       In this case, the coordinates for Houstontown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).