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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Big Rock 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 Big Rock. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Big Rock. Our list contains 158 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Big Rock.

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 Big Rock.  

Newspapers Neighboring Big Rock ...

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

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

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Big Rock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Rock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5517, Longitude: -92.2980       In this case, the coordinates for Big Rock have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).