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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Five Forks.

Our newspaper information for Five Forks 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 Five Forks. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Forks. Our list contains 35 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Five Forks.

Newspapers Neighboring Five Forks ...

The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Five Forks.

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

  • Published In Roxboro  ...
  • Published In Milton [Caswell County] ...
  • Published In Berea [Granville County] ...
    • Berea Gazette (from 1876)
      • The first year of publication was in 1876, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Berea Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068278
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20665745
  • Published In Yanceyville [Caswell County] ...
  • Published In South Boston [Halifax County] ...
    • Halifax Gazette (from 1903)
    • News & Record (from 1974)
    • The Gazette-Virginian (from 1963)
    • The News (from 1890)
      • Years of publication:  1890 to 1929
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96094026
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 34630914
    • The South Boston News (from 1929)

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- Five Forks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4374, Longitude: -79.0200       In this case, the coordinates for Five Forks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).