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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Smith Island 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 Smith Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Smith Island. Our list contains 21 papers that were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Smith Island.

Newspapers Neighboring Smith Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km] of Smith Island.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Smith Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smith Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9812, Longitude: -76.0299       In this case, the coordinates for Smith Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).