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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Sams 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 Sams. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sams. Our list contains 33 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Sams.

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 Sams.  

Newspapers Neighboring Sams ...

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

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

  • Published In Spout Springs  ...
    • The Spout Spring Times (from 1896)
  • Published In Irvine  ...
  • Published In Ravenna  ...
  • Published In Clay City [Powell County] ...
  • Published In Stanton [Powell County] ...
  • Published In Richmond [Madison County] ...
    • We know of 33 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Richmond. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Richmond
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Sams. This extended list includes all the papers from Richmond. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Sams

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sams) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sams. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7809, Longitude: -84.0284       In this case, the coordinates for Sams have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).