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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oak Ridge. Our list contains 66 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Oak Ridge.

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 Oak Ridge.  

Newspapers Neighboring Oak Ridge ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Oak Ridge.

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

  • Published In Walker  ...
  • Published In El Dorado Springs [Cedar County] ...
  • Published In Nevada  ...
  • Published In Schell City  ...
    • Schell City Ledger (from 1947)
    • The News (from 1880)
      • The first year of publication was in 1880, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90061165
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21052260
    • The Schell City News
  • Published In Filley [Cedar County] ...
  • Published In Rockville [Bates County] ...
  • Published In Sheldon  ...
  • Published In Moundville  ...
  • Published In Jerico Springs [Cedar County] ...
  • Published In Metz  ...
    • The Metz Times (from 1902)
  • Published In Bronaugh  ...
  • Published In Rich Hill [Bates County] ...
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8592, Longitude: -94.1488       In this case, the coordinates for Oak Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).