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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Parkersburg 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 Parkersburg. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Parkersburg. Our list contains 28 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Parkersburg.

Newspapers Neighboring Parkersburg ...

The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Parkersburg.

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

  • Published In Clinton  ...
  • Published In Elizabethtown [Bladen County] ...
    • Cape Fear Lance (from 1898)
    • The Beacon (from 1888)
    • The Bladen County News (from 1910)
  • Published In Magnolia [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Warsaw [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Rose Hill [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Faison [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Clarkton [Bladen County] ...
  • Published In Wallace [Duplin County] ...
  • Published In Falcon [Cumberland County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Parkersburg) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Parkersburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8371, Longitude: -78.4433       In this case, the coordinates for Parkersburg have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).