Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Kona.
Our newspaper information for Kona 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 Kona. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Kona. Our list contains 6 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Kona.
Newspapers Neighboring Kona ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Kona.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Kona.
- Published In Cromona ...
- Letcher County Community News-Press (from 1988)
- The Letcher County Community Press (from 1960)
- Published In Jenkins ...
- The Jenkins Recorder (from 1921)
- Published In Whitesburg ...
- Letcher County Leader (from 192?)
- The Mountain Eagle (from 1907)
- Published In Wheelwright [Floyd County] ...
- The Wheelwright Advocate (from 1980)
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- Kona) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kona. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1576, Longitude: -82.7388 In this case, the coordinates for Kona have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |