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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rock Point 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 Rock Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rock Point. Our list contains 51 papers that were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> of Rock Point.

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 Rock Point.  

Newspapers Neighboring Rock Point ...

The following newspapers were published within 25 miles [40.2 km] of Rock Point.

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

  • Published In Gold Hill  ...
    • Central Point Star (from 192?)
    • Gold Hill News (from 1897)
    • Gold Hill Nugget (from 1949)
    • The Times (from 1952)
  • Published In Rogue River  ...
    • River Press (from 2000)
    • Rogue River Press (from 2001)
    • Rogue River Press (from 19??)
    • The Argus (from 191?)
    • The Times (from 1951)
  • Published In Central Point  ...
  • Published In Jacksonville  ...
  • Published In Grants Pass [Josephine County] ...
  • Published In Medford  ...
    • We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Medford. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Medford
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> of Rock Point. This extended list includes all the papers from Medford. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rock Point
  • Published In Eagle Point  ...
    • Eagle Point Independent (from 1977)
    • Shopper (from 1982)
      • Years of publication:  1982 to 1983
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Shopper
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96088037
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 37530744
    • Upper Rogue Independent (from 1986)
  • Published In Talent  ...
    • Talent News (from 1892)
  • Published In Ashland  ...

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- Rock Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rock Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4295, Longitude: -123.1008       In this case, the coordinates for Rock Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).