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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Five Forks 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 Five Forks. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Forks. Our list contains 5 papers that were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of Five Forks.

Newspapers Neighboring Five Forks ...

The following newspapers were published within 8 miles [12.9 km] of Five Forks.

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

  • Published In Hereford  ...
  • Published In Shrewsbury [York County] ...
    • Record Advertiser (from 1975)
  • Published In Glen Rock [York County] ...
    • The Glen Rock Item (from 187?)
    • The Item (from 1878)
      • Years of publication:  1878 to 1896
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Item
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86081614
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13478026
    • The News-Item (from 1870)

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Five Forks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6790, Longitude: -76.6580       In this case, the coordinates for Five Forks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).