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Extended Newspaper ListIntroduction ...Below are 20 newspapers that have been published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Fig.  The list has been sorted by paper name. 
Ashe County Journal (from 1929)Johnson County Bulletin (from 1948)Johnson County News-Bulletin (from 1951)Johnson County News (from 191?)Mountain Messenger (from 1871)Tennessee Tomahawk (from 188?)The Ashe Recorder (from 191?)The Ashe Reporter (from 189?)The Backbone Star (from 1935)The Highland Journal (from 1984)The Jefferson Recorder (from 1902)The Jefferson Times (from 1978)The Little Wonder Weekly (from 19??)The Northwestern Herald (from 1924)The Skyland Post (from 193?)The Tomahawk (from 1954)The Watauga Enterprise (from 1888)The Watauga Journal (from 1887)The Western Herald (from 1899)Watauga Democrat (from 1888) 
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance.  A straight line distance ignores  obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line  drawn from Point A (ie- Fig) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fig.  The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4529, Longitude: -81.6043        In this case, the coordinates for Fig have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |  |  |