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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Whitney 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 Whitney. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Whitney. Our list contains 30 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Whitney.

Newspapers Neighboring Whitney ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Whitney.

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

  • Published In Ashville  ...
  • Published In Oneonta [Blount County] ...
  • Published In Ragland  ...
  • Published In Springville  ...
    • Sunshine (from 1885)
      • The first year of publication was in 1885, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sunshine
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86050338
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14120514
    • The Springville Item (from 190?)
    • The Springville News (from 189?)
    • The St. Clair Clarion (from 198?)
    • The St. Clair Democrat (from 1910)
  • Published In Attalla [Etowah County] ...
  • Published In Odenville  ...
  • Published In Macon [Calhoun County] ...
    • The Macon Banner (from 1840)
  • Published In Alabama City [Etowah 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whitney) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whitney. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8679, Longitude: -86.2914       In this case, the coordinates for Whitney have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).