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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Old City 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 Old City. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Old City. Our list contains 66 papers that were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Old City.

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 Old City.  

Newspapers Neighboring Old City ...

The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km] of Old City.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Old City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9465, Longitude: -75.1468       In this case, the coordinates for Old City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).