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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ben Dowdy 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 Ben Dowdy. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ben Dowdy. Our list contains 81 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Ben Dowdy.

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 Ben Dowdy.  

Newspapers Neighboring Ben Dowdy ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Ben Dowdy.

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

  • Published In Watkinsville  ...
  • Published In Athens [Clarke County] ...
    • We know of 80 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Athens. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Athens
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Ben Dowdy. This extended list includes all the papers from Athens. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Ben Dowdy
  • Published In Bogart  ...
    • The Bogart News (from 1896)
      • The first year of publication was in 1896, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Bogart News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91099157
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24392924

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- Ben Dowdy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ben Dowdy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9134, Longitude: -83.4388       In this case, the coordinates for Ben Dowdy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).