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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Ensley 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 West Ensley. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Ensley. Our list contains 188 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of West Ensley.

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 West Ensley.  

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

Newspapers Neighboring West Ensley ...

The following newspapers were published within 7 miles [11.3 km] of West Ensley.

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

  • Published In Wylam  ...
  • Published In Ensley  ...
  • Published In Pratt Mines  ...
    • Jefferson Enterprise (from 1889)
  • Published In Pratt City  ...
    • Pratt City Democrat (from 1896)
    • Pratt City Herald (from 1899)
    • Pratt City Sun (from 1898)
      • The first year of publication was in 1898, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Pratt City Sun
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85044799
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12217832
    • The Commercial (from 189?)
      • The first year of publication was in 189?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Commercial
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87050407
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17279732
    • The Independent (from 1893)
    • The Pratt City Weekly News (from 1895)
  • Published In Elyton  ...
    • The Elyton Banner (from 1899)
    • The Elyton Herald (from 186?)
    • The Elyton Sun (from 187?)
    • The Jones Valley Times (from 1854)
  • Published In Birmingham  ...
    • We know of 186 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Birmingham. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Birmingham
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of West Ensley. This extended list includes all the papers from Birmingham. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Ensley.

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

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 from Point A (ie- West Ensley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Ensley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5287, Longitude: -86.9258       In this case, the coordinates for West Ensley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).