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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Shawmut 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 Shawmut. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Shawmut. Our list contains 40 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Shawmut.

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 Shawmut.  

Newspapers Neighboring Shawmut ...

The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km] of Shawmut.

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

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Shawmut) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shawmut. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8404, Longitude: -85.1833       In this case, the coordinates for Shawmut have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).