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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rock City 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 Rock City. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rock City. Our list contains 90 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Rock City.

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 Rock City.  

Newspapers Neighboring Rock City ...

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

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

  • Published In Rossville  ...
  • Published In Chattanooga [Hamilton County] ...
    • We know of 87 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chattanooga. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Chattanooga
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Rock City. This extended list includes all the papers from Chattanooga. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rock City
  • Published In Chickamauga  ...
  • Published In East Ridge [Hamilton County] ...
    • East Ridge Sun (from 1953)
    • The East Ridge Sun (from 1958)

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- Rock City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rock City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9742, Longitude: -85.3511       In this case, the coordinates for Rock City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).