Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Blair.
Our newspaper information for Blair 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 Blair. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Blair. Our list contains 9 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Blair.
Newspapers Neighboring Blair ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Blair.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Blair.
- Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...
- Letcher County Leader (from 192?)
- The Mountain Eagle (from 1907)
- Published In Appalachia [Wise County] ...
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
- Published In Big Stone Gap [Wise County] ...
- Big Stone Gap Herald (from 18??)
- The Big Stone Gap Post (from 1892)
- The Big Stone Post (from 1890)
- The Mountain Empire News (from 1978)
- The Post (from 1928)
- Years of publication: 1928 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Post
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95079301
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33386628
- The Wise Owl (from 1936)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Blair) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blair. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9904, Longitude: -82.9529 In this case, the coordinates for Blair have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |