Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lumberton.
Our newspaper information for Lumberton is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 4 papers that were published in the immediate area of Lumberton. In addition, the list contains another 27 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Lumberton. In total, we've identified 31 papers within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Lumberton.
Newspapers Published In Lumberton ...
We know of 4 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Lumberton:
- Lamar County Head Block (from 1977)
- The Head Block (from 1971)
- The Lumberton Headblock (from 1888)
- The Progressive Citizen (from 1925)
Newspapers Neighboring Lumberton ...
The following newspapers were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Lumberton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Lumberton.
- Published In Poplarville [Pearl River County] ...
- Pearl River Watchman (from 1918)
- The Free Press (from 1890)
- The Poplarville Democrat (from 1975)
- The Weekly Democrat (from 1933)
- Published In Wiggins [Stone County] ...
- Stone County Enterprise (from 19??)
- Published In Hattiesburg [Forrest County] ...
- Forrest County News (from 19??)
- Hattiesburg American (from 1917)
- Hattiesburg Daily News (from 19??)
- Hattiesburg Daily Progress (from 18??)
- Hattiesburg Progress (from 18??)
- Hub City Advertiser (from 1974)
- Hub City Community News (from 1984)
- South Mississippi Community News (from 1988)
- The American Citizen (from 18??)
- The Daily Squibs (from 19??)
- The Hattiesburg Citizen
- The Hattiesburg Independent (from 1935)
- The Hattiesburg News (from 1897)
- The Hub Breeze (from 19??)
- The Hub City News (from 1987)
- The Saturday Evening Eye (from 1904)
- The Union Messenger (from 1934)
- The Weekly Citizen (from 19??)
- The Weekly News (from 1910)
- Times-Advertiser (from 1974)
- Published In Petal [Forrest County] ...
- The Petal Journal (from 197?)
- The Petal Times (from 1974)
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- Lumberton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lumberton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.0065, Longitude: -89.4613 In this case, the coordinates for Lumberton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |