RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of North Carolina >> Gates County >> Rays Beach >> Local NewspapersIndex...

Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rays Beach 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 Rays Beach. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rays Beach. Our list contains 18 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Rays Beach.

Newspapers Neighboring Rays Beach ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Rays Beach.

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

  • Published In Gatesville  ...
    • Gates County Index (from 193?)
    • The Messenger (from 1916)
  • Published In Ahoskie [Hertford County] ...
  • Published In Murfreesboro [Hertford County] ...
  • Published In Aulander [Bertie County] ...
    • Aulander Advance (from 1928)
    • The Advance (from 1929)

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- Rays Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rays Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3774, Longitude: -76.8400       In this case, the coordinates for Rays Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).