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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Bobtown 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 Bobtown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Bobtown. Our list contains 34 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Bobtown.

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 Bobtown.  

Newspapers Neighboring Bobtown ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Bobtown.

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

  • Published In Somerset  ...
    • We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Somerset. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Somerset
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Bobtown. This extended list includes all the papers from Somerset. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Bobtown
  • Published In Mount Vernon [Rockcastle County] ...
    • Mount Vernon Signal (from 18??)
    • The Mountain Signal (from 1887)
    • The Rockcastle Record (from 1949)
  • Published In Burnside  ...
    • The Burnside Item (from 189?)
    • The Burnside Star (from 191?)
    • The Republic (from 1971)
  • Published In Renfro Valley [Rockcastle County] ...
    • Renfro Valley Bugle (from 1944)
  • Published In Yosemite [Casey County] ...
    • The Yosemite News (from 188?)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bobtown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bobtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2179, Longitude: -84.5369       In this case, the coordinates for Bobtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).