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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Dry Run 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 Dry Run. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Dry Run. Our list contains 92 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Dry Run.

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 Dry Run.  

Newspapers Neighboring Dry Run ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Dry Run.

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

  • Published In Orbisonia [Huntingdon County] ...
    • The Leader (from 1874)
    • The Orbisonia Dispatch (from 1881)
    • The Valley Log (from 1980)
  • Published In Shirleysburg [Huntingdon County] ...
    • Shirleysburg Herald (from 1855)
    • Shirleysburg Herald (from 1966)
    • The Herald (from 1858)
    • The Weekly Herald (from 1876)
  • Published In Shippensburg [Cumberland County] ...
  • Published In Newton Hamilton [Mifflin County] ...
    • Flea-bite (from 1879)
      • Years of publication:  1879 to 1880
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Flea-bite
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86081305
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13452645
    • Newton News (from 1925)
    • The Herald (from 1905)
    • The Reasoner (from 1886)
    • The Watchman (from 1880)
  • Published In Chambersburg  ...
    • We know of 75 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chambersburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Chambersburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Dry Run. This extended list includes all the papers from Chambersburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Dry Run
  • Published In Mount Union [Huntingdon County] ...
  • Published In Scotland  ...
  • Published In Newville [Cumberland County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dry Run) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dry Run. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1700, Longitude: -77.7538