Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Jasper.
Our newspaper information for Jasper is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 16 papers that were published in the immediate area of Jasper. In addition, the list contains another 20 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Jasper. In total, we've identified 36 papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Jasper.
Newspapers Published In Jasper ...
We know of 16 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Jasper:
- Daily Mountain Eagle (from 1960)
- Eagle Community News (from 196?)
- Jasper Advertiser (from 1925)
- Mountain Eagle (from 1872)
- The Alabama Bugle (from 1901)
- The Golden Light (from 1896)
- The Jasper Headlight (from 188?)
- The Protectionist (from 1887)
- The True Citizen (from 188?)
- The Union News (from 1934)
- The Walker County News (from 1906)
- The Weekly Headlight (from 1887)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Walker County Record (from 1893)
- Walker County Times (from 187?)
- Walker County Times (from 1951)
- Walker County Tribune (from 193?)
Newspapers Neighboring Jasper ...
The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Jasper.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Jasper.
- Published In Cordova ...
- Cordova Enterprise (from 1898)
- The Cordova Herald (from 1911)
- The Cordova News (from 190?)
- The Walker County Tribune (from 1932)
- Published In Oakman ...
- Oakman Enterprise (from 1911)
- Oakman News (from 1894)
- The Alabama Miner (from 1899)
- The Oakman News (from 1902)
- Published In Patton Junction ...
- The Patton Pointer (from 189?)
- Published In Carbon Hill ...
- Carbon Hill Enterprise (from 1903)
- Carbon Hill Index (from 1924)
- Carbon Hill Journal (from 1913)
- Carbon Hill Star (from 1899)
- The first year of publication was in 1899, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Carbon Hill Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87050233
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 16111607
- Enterprise-Democrat (from 1904)
- The Carbon Hill News (from 192?)
- The Carbon Hill Star (from 1908)
- The Carbon Hill Weekly (from 1908)
- The Corridor Messenger (from 2007)
- The Weekly Dispatch (from 1889)
- Published In Sumiton ...
- The Journal-Star (from 1965)
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- Jasper) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jasper. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8323, Longitude: -87.2775 |