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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Egypt 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 Egypt. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Egypt. Our list contains 35 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Egypt.

Newspapers Neighboring Egypt ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Egypt.

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

  • Published In Swifton [Jackson County] ...
  • Published In Walnut Ridge [Lawrence County] ...
    • Daily Telephone (from 1895)
    • The Blade
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1929
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Blade
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90050252
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22153538
    • The Times Dispatch (from 1910)
  • Published In Jonesboro  ...
  • Published In Portia [Lawrence County] ...
    • Portia Free Press (from 1886)
  • Published In Powhatan [Lawrence County] ...
  • Published In Tuckerman [Jackson County] ...
    • The Record (from 1960)
    • The Record (from 1982)
    • The Tuckerman Record (from 1921)
    • The Tuckerman Record (from 1975)
  • Published In Harrisburg [Poinsett County] ...
    • Arkansas Tribune (from 1878)
    • The Modern News (from 1888)
    • The Poinsett County Times

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Egypt) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Egypt. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8679, Longitude: -90.9460       In this case, the coordinates for Egypt have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).