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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Sampson 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 Sampson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sampson. Our list contains 16 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Sampson.

Newspapers Neighboring Sampson ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of Sampson.

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

  • Published In Harlan  ...
  • Published In Jonesville [Lee County] ...
  • Published In Sneedville [Hancock County] ...
    • Hancock County News (from 194?)
    • Hancock County Post (from 1966)
    • Sneedville Times (from 1936)
    • The Hancock Courier (from 1895)
    • The Hancock News (from 1981)
    • The Sneedville News (from 191?)
  • Published In Pennington Gap [Lee County] ...

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- Sampson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sampson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7265, Longitude: -83.2793       In this case, the coordinates for Sampson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).