Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Canton.
Our newspaper information for Canton 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 3 papers that were published in the immediate area of Canton. In addition, the list contains another 84 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Canton. In total, we've identified 87 papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Canton.
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 Canton.
Newspapers Published In Canton ...
We know of 3 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Canton:
- The Canton Enterprise (from 19??)
- The Canton Observer (from 19??)
- The Enterprise (from 1971)
Newspapers Neighboring Canton ...
The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Canton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Canton.
- Published In Clyde ...
- The Clyde Register (from 188?)
- Published In Waynesville ...
- The Carolina Mountaineer And Waynesville Courier (from 1917)
- The Carolina Mountaineer (from 1925)
- The Daily News (from 1886)
- The Haywood Enterprise (from 1908)
- The Mountaineer (from 1972)
- The Waynesville Mountaineer (from 1925)
- The Waynesville News (from 1884)
- Waynesville Courier (from 1888)
- Published In Asheville [Buncombe County] ...
- We know of 84 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Asheville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Asheville
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Canton. This extended list includes all the papers from Asheville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Canton
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Canton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Canton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.5361, Longitude: -82.8380 In this case, the coordinates for Canton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |