Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oakland.
Our newspaper information for Oakland 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 Oakland. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oakland. Our list contains 16 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Oakland.
Newspapers Neighboring Oakland ...
The following newspapers were published within 7 miles [11.3 km] of Oakland.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oakland.
- Published In Capitol Heights ...
- The Maryland Bee (from 1909)
- The Weekly Review (from 1926)
- Published In Bladensburg ...
- The Prince George's Post-Sentinel (from 1985)
- Published In Landover ...
- The Tribune Prince George's (from 1978)
- The Tribune (from 1979)
- Published In Clinton ...
- South Prince Georges Independent (from 1981)
- The Clinton Times (from 1981)
- The South County Times (from 1986)
- Published In Hyattsville ...
- Straight From The Street (from 199?)
- The Crusader (from 1979)
- The Hyattsville Independent (from 1899)
- The Independent (from 1952)
- The New Prince George's Post (from 1976)
- The Prince George's Sentinel (from 1988)
- The Sentinel Prince George's (from 1974)
- The Sentinel Southern Prince George's (from 197?)
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- Oakland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8609, Longitude: -76.9103 In this case, the coordinates for Oakland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |