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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Gears Ferry 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 Gears Ferry. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Gears Ferry. Our list contains 198 papers that were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Gears Ferry.

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 Gears Ferry.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Gears Ferry ...

The following newspapers were published within 26 miles [41.8 km] of Gears Ferry.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Gears Ferry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gears Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3892, Longitude: -90.4651       In this case, the coordinates for Gears Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).