Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Longstown.
Our newspaper information for Longstown 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 Longstown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Longstown. Our list contains 77 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Longstown.
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 Longstown.
Newspapers Neighboring Longstown ...
The following newspapers were published within 7 miles [11.3 km] of Longstown.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Longstown.
- Published In York ...
- We know of 73 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of York. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for York
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Longstown. This extended list includes all the papers from York. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Longstown
- Published In Wrightsville ...
- The Wrightsville Herald (from 1947)
- The Wrightsville Star (from 1870)
- The Wrightsville Sun (from 1880)
- York County Star (from 185?)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Longstown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Longstown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9604, Longitude: -76.6589 In this case, the coordinates for Longstown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |