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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Philadelphia. Our list contains 30 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Philadelphia.

Newspapers Neighboring Philadelphia ...

The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Philadelphia.

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

  • Published In Ashford  ...
    • The Ashford Power (from 197?)
  • Published In Parish  ...
    • The Parrish News (from 1929)
  • Published In Dothan  ...
  • Published In Blakely [Early County] ...
    • Early County News (from 1859)
  • Published In Headland [Henry County] ...

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 from Point A (ie- Philadelphia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Philadelphia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.1610, Longitude: -85.1074       In this case, the coordinates for Philadelphia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).