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Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Mountain Island.

Our newspaper information for Mountain Island 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 Mountain Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mountain Island. Our list contains 108 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mountain Island.

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 Mountain Island.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Mountain Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Mountain Island.

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

  • Published In Mount Holly  ...
    • The Gaston Journal (from 1896)
  • Published In Dallas  ...
    • The Dallas Eagle (from 1889)
      • The first year of publication was in 1889, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Dallas Eagle
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98058863
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 40411695
    • The Gaston Current (from 1886)
    • The Truth (from 1903)
  • Published In Gastonia  ...
  • Published In Charlotte [Mecklenburg County] ...
    • We know of 108 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Charlotte. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Charlotte
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Mountain Island. This extended list includes all the papers from Charlotte. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Mountain Island.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Mountain Island. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Gaston County: www.co.gaston.nc.us/

The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/

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 from Point A (ie- Mountain Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3335, Longitude: -80.9995       In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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