Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Five Points 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 Five Points. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Five Points. Our list contains 156 papers that were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Five Points.

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 Five Points.

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Five Points ...

The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km] of Five Points.

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

Published In Marcus Hook [Delaware County] ...
- The Marcus Hook Herald (from 1896)
  - Years of publication: 1896 to 1897
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Marcus Hook Herald
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN89077503
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19910668
Published In Wilmington [New Castle County] ...
- We know of 156 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 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Five Points. 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 Five Points.
  
  Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load

Footnotes ...

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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Five Points) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Five Points. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7565, Longitude: -75.4146 In this case, the coordinates for Five Points have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).