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Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Oakton 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 Oakton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oakton. Our list contains 96 papers that were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Oakton.

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 Oakton.  

Newspapers Neighboring Oakton ...

The following newspapers were published within 29 miles [46.7 km] of Oakton.

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

  • Published In Clinton  ...
  • Published In Hickman [Fulton County] ...
  • Published In Bardwell [Carlisle County] ...
  • Published In Fulton [Fulton County] ...
  • Published In Union City [Obion County] ...
  • Published In Wickliffe [Ballard County] ...
    • Advance-Yeoman (from 1947)
    • The Ballard Yeoman (from 1892)
  • Published In Troy [Obion County] ...
    • Obion County News (from 1873)
  • Published In Cairo [Alexander County] ...
    • We know of 59 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Cairo. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Cairo
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Oakton. This extended list includes all the papers from Cairo. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oakton
  • Published In Mayfield [Graves County] ...
  • Published In Martin [Weakley County] ...
  • Published In La Center [Ballard County] ...
    • La Center Advance (from 190?)
    • Liberty (from 19??)
      • Published during 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card:   Liberty
      • Holdings:   LCCN SN88061275
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18944801
      • ISSN Number:   1942-0005
    • The Ballard County News (from 1968)
    • The Weekly Advance (from 1912)
  • Published In Obion [Obion County] ...
  • Published In Mound City [Pulaski County] ...

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Oakton. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/

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- Oakton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6634, Longitude: -89.0673       In this case, the coordinates for Oakton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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