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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ragland 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 Ragland. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ragland. Our list contains 63 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Ragland.

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 Ragland.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Ragland ...

The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Ragland.

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

  • Published In Joppa [Massac County] ...
    • Joppa Enterprise (from 1911)
  • 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 Metropolis [Massac County] ...
  • Published In Brookport [Massac County] ...
  • Published In Paducah  ...
    • We know of 75 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Paducah. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Paducah
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Ragland. This extended list includes all the papers from Paducah. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Ragland.

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  • Published In Mound City [Pulaski County] ...
  • Published In Mounds [Pulaski County] ...
  • Published In Vienna [Johnson County] ...
  • Published In Wickliffe [Ballard County] ...
    • Advance-Yeoman (from 1947)
    • The Ballard Yeoman (from 1892)
  • 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 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Ragland. 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 Ragland.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Dongola [Union County] ...
  • Published In Bardwell [Carlisle County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ragland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ragland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1608, Longitude: -88.8834       In this case, the coordinates for Ragland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).