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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Shell 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 Shell Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Shell Island. Our list contains 101 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Shell 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 Shell Island.  

Newspapers Neighboring Shell Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Shell Island.

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

  • Published In Wilmington  ...
    • 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 Shell 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 Shell Island
  • Published In Carolina Beach  ...
    • Island Gazette (from 1978)
  • Published In Burgaw [Pender County] ...
  • Published In Southport [Brunswick County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Shell Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shell Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2238, Longitude: -77.7839       In this case, the coordinates for Shell Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).