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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Dowell 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 Dowell. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Dowell. Our list contains 3 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Dowell.

Newspapers Neighboring Dowell ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Dowell.

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

  • Published In Lexington Park [Saint Mary's County] ...
    • St. Mary's Guardian (from 1973)
    • The Beacon (from 1983)
    • The St. Mary's Tide (from 1986)

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- Dowell) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dowell. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3462, Longitude: -76.4588       In this case, the coordinates for Dowell have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).