Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oak Island.
Our newspaper information for Oak 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 Oak Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oak Island. Our list contains 91 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Oak 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 Oak Island.
Newspapers Neighboring Oak Island ...
The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Oak Island.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oak Island.
- Published In Fort Caswell ...
- The Battery Buzzer (from 1918)
- Published In Southport ...
- Southport Herald (from 1905)
- Southport Standard (from 1897)
- The Southport Leader (from 1890)
- The State Port Pilot (from 1928)
- Published In Shallotte ...
- The Brunswick Beacon (from 19??)
- Published In Carolina Beach [New Hanover County] ...
- Island Gazette (from 1978)
- Published In Wilmington [New Hanover County] ...
- We know of 91 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wilmington. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Wilmington
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Oak Island. This extended list includes all the papers from Wilmington. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oak Island
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- Oak Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9189, Longitude: -78.1285 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |