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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for South Florence 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 South Florence. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding South Florence. Our list contains 29 papers that were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of South Florence.

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 South Florence.  

Newspapers Neighboring South Florence ...

The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km] of South Florence.

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

  • Published In Florence [Lauderdale County] ...
    • 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 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of South Florence. 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 South Florence
  • Published In Sheffield  ...
  • Published In Muscle Shoals  ...
  • Published In Tuscumbia  ...
    • We know of 27 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Tuscumbia. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Tuscumbia
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of South Florence. This extended list includes all the papers from Tuscumbia. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for South Florence
  • Published In Bailey Springs [Lauderdale County] ...
    • The Bailey Springs Journal (from 1897)
  • Published In Leighton  ...
    • The Leighton News (from 1890)

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- South Florence) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in South Florence. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7754, Longitude: -87.6691       In this case, the coordinates for South Florence have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).