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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Smeltertown 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 Smeltertown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Smeltertown. Our list contains 53 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Smeltertown.

Newspapers Neighboring Smeltertown ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Smeltertown.

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

  • Published In Salida  ...
  • Published In Turret  ...
    • Turret Gold Belt (from 1899)
  • Published In Nathrop  ...
  • Published In Bonanza [Saguache County] ...
  • Published In Buena Vista  ...
  • Published In Saint Elmo  ...
  • Published In Whitepine [Gunnison County] ...
    • White Pine Cone (from 1883)
    • White Pine Journal (from 1881)
  • Published In Bowerman [Gunnison County] ...
  • Published In Pitkin [Gunnison County] ...
    • The Pitkin Bulletin (from 1893)
    • The Pitkin Independent (from 1880)
    • The Pitkin Miner (from 1890)
    • The Pitkin Mining News (from 1881)
  • Published In Tincup [Gunnison County] ...
  • Published In Balfour [Park County] ...
    • The Balfour News (from 1894)
      • The first year of publication was in 1894, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Balfour News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90051229
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21353053

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- Smeltertown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smeltertown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5475, Longitude: -106.0145       In this case, the coordinates for Smeltertown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).