Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Georgetown.
Our newspaper information for Georgetown 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 Georgetown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Georgetown. Our list contains 17 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Georgetown.
Newspapers Neighboring Georgetown ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Georgetown.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Georgetown.
- Published In Pennington Gap [Lee County] ...
- The Powell Valley News (from 1921)
- Published In Jonesville [Lee County] ...
- 2380th Traveler (from 1935)
- Cumberland Bowl Voice (from 193?)
- Gully Gleanings (from 1935)
- Lee County Republican (from 1889)
- Lee County Sentinel (from 1873)
- Smoker Over (from 1939)
- Published In Harlan ...
- The Harlan American (from 192?)
- The Harlan Daily Enterprise (from 1928)
- The Harlan Enterprise (from 190?)
- 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 from Point A (ie- Georgetown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Georgetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8893, Longitude: -83.0552 In this case, the coordinates for Georgetown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |