Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ridgecrest 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 Ridgecrest. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ridgecrest. Our list contains 10 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Ridgecrest.

Newspapers Neighboring Ridgecrest ...

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

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

Published In Jonesboro [Clayton County] ...
- Clayton County Journal (from 19??)
  - Years of publication: 19?? to 1971
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Clayton County Journal
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN89053170
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19538585
- Clayton County News And Farmer (from 1928)
  - Years of publication: 1928 to 1955
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Clayton County News And Farmer
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN89053526
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 20175760
- Clayton County News (from 1919)
  - Years of publication: 1919 to 1928
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Clayton County News
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN90052230
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 21664022
- Clayton News Daily (from 2005)
  - Years of publication: 2005 to current
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the Clayton News Daily
  - Holdings for: LCCN 2010233182
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 641218109
- News Daily (from 1998)
  - Years of publication: 1998 to 2005
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the News Daily
  - Holdings for: LCCN 2002233215
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 51462051
- South Fulton Recorder-news/daily (from 1975)
  - Years of publication: 1975 to 1976
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for the South Fulton Recorder-news/daily
  - Holdings for: LCCN 91074176
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 32981704
- The Clayton News/daily (from 1979)
  - Years of publication: 1979 to 1998
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Clayton News/daily
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN89053173
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19538521
- The Jonesboro Enterprise
  - The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in ????
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Jonesboro Enterprise
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN90052228
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 21663648
- The Jonesboro News (from 1874)
  - Years of publication: 1874 to 19??
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Jonesboro News
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN85027047
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12935091
- The Jonesboro News (from 1913)
  - Years of publication: 1913 to 1919
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Jonesboro News
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN90052229
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 21663946

Footnotes ...

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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- Ridgecrest) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ridgecrest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5568, Longitude: -84.2327 In this case, the coordinates for Ridgecrest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).