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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Blairstown is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 3 papers that were published in the immediate area of Blairstown. In addition, the list contains another 123 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Blairstown. In total, we've identified 126 papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Blairstown.

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 Blairstown.  

Newspapers Published In Blairstown ...

We know of 3 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Blairstown:

Newspapers Neighboring Blairstown ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Blairstown.

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

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Blairstown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blairstown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9062, Longitude: -92.0823       In this case, the coordinates for Blairstown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).