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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Mertz 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 Mertz. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mertz. Our list contains 144 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mertz.

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 Mertz.  

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

Newspapers Neighboring Mertz ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Mertz.

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

  • Published In Mobile  ...
    • We know of 139 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Mobile. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Mobile
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mertz. This extended list includes all the papers from Mobile. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Mertz.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Prichard  ...
    • The Citizen (from 1928)
  • Published In Whistler  ...
  • Published In Daphne [Baldwin County] ...
    • The Daphne Times (from 1890)
    • The Gulf Breeze (from 1894)
    • The Standard (from 1901)

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- Mertz) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mertz. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.6627, Longitude: -88.0883       In this case, the coordinates for Mertz have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).