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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Fire 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 Fire Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Fire Island. Our list contains 179 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Fire Island.

Newspapers Neighboring Fire Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Fire Island.

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

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 from Point A (ie- Fire Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fire Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6476, Longitude: -73.1459       In this case, the coordinates for Fire Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).