Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oakland.
Our newspaper information for Oakland 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 Oakland. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oakland. Our list contains 78 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Oakland.
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 Oakland.
Newspapers Neighboring Oakland ...
The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Oakland.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oakland.
- Published In Red Springs ...
- Red Springs Citizen (from 1896)
- Red Springs Comet (from 1892)
- The Comet (from 189?)
- The Farmer And Scottish Chief (from 18??)
- Published In Fayetteville [Cumberland County] ...
- We know of 66 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Fayetteville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Fayetteville
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Oakland. This extended list includes all the papers from Fayetteville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oakland
- Published In Lumberton ...
- Robco News (from 1984)
- The Argus (from 1900)
- The Lumberton Argus (from 1904)
- The Lumberton Post (from 1958)
- The Lumberton Voice (from 1935)
- The Post Of Robeson County, The Scottish Chief, Rowland News (from 1977)
- The Post (from 1976)
- The Robesonian (from 1870)
- The Weekly Argus (from 1903)
- Published In Pembroke ...
- The Carolina Indian Voice (from 1973)
- The Lumbee (from 1965)
- The Pembroke Progress (from 1947)
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- Oakland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8388, Longitude: -78.9606 In this case, the coordinates for Oakland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |