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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Fort Defiance.

Our newspaper information for Fort Defiance 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 Fort Defiance. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Fort Defiance. Our list contains 27 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Fort Defiance.

Newspapers Neighboring Fort Defiance ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Fort Defiance.

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

  • Published In Lenoir  ...
  • Published In Hudson  ...
    • Caldwell Courier (from 1971)
    • The Caldwell News (from 1985)
  • Published In Blowing Rock  ...
    • Sundown Times (from 1978)
    • The Blowing Rocket (from 1932)
  • Published In Boomer [Wilkes County] ...
    • Good News (from 1917)
      • Years of publication:  1917 to 1919
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Good News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068503
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24949064
    • Pearson's Paper (from 1923)
    • The Fool-Killer (from 1919)
  • Published In Granite Falls  ...
  • Published In Boone [Watauga County] ...
  • Published In Rhodhiss [Burke County] ...
    • Southern Weekly (from 1902)

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- Fort Defiance) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Defiance. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0171, Longitude: -81.4951       In this case, the coordinates for Fort Defiance have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).