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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Central 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 Central. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Central. Our list contains 58 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Central.

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 Central.  

Newspapers Neighboring Central ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Central.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Central) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Central. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1776, Longitude: -79.5850       In this case, the coordinates for Central have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).