Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Elk Shoal.
Our newspaper information for Elk Shoal 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 Elk Shoal. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Elk Shoal. Our list contains 28 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Elk Shoal.
Newspapers Neighboring Elk Shoal ...
The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of Elk Shoal.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Elk Shoal.
- Published In Burnsville ...
- American Vim (from 191?)
- Black Mountain Eagle (from 189?)
- Edwards Broadcaster (from 19??)
- The Burnsville Eagle (from 19??)
- The Eagle (from 19??)
- The Mountain Log (from 190?)
- The Yancey Journal (from 1972)
- The Yancey Record (from 1936)
- Yancey County Common Times (from 19??)
- Published In Barnardsville [Buncombe County] ...
- The Junior Times (from 1897)
- The Times (from 189?)
- The first year of publication was in 189?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Times
- Holdings for: LCCN SN98058956
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 41242127
- Published In Bakersville [Mitchell County] ...
- Mitchell County Banner (from 19??)
- Mitchell Ledger (from 1971)
- Roan Mountain Republican (from 1876)
- The Mountain Voice (from 1880)
- The Western North Carolina Democrat (from 1887)
- Published In Erwin [Unicoi County] ...
- Erwin News (from 192?)
- The Erwin Magnet-Times (from 1927)
- The Erwin Magnet (from 1891)
- The Erwin Magnet (from 1924)
- The Erwin Observer (from 1937)
- The Erwin Record (from 1928)
- The Erwin Times (from 1926)
- The Erwin Tri-Weekly (from 1935)
- The Erwin Unakean (from 1887)
- The Erwin Weekly Magnet (from 189?)
- The Unicoi News (from 1900)
- Unicoi County Progress (from 1928)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Elk Shoal) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Elk Shoal. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9423, Longitude: -82.3907 In this case, the coordinates for Elk Shoal have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |