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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Plainsville 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 Plainsville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Plainsville. Our list contains 110 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Plainsville.

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 Plainsville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Plainsville ...

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

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

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 from Point A (ie- Plainsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Plainsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2904, Longitude: -75.8496       In this case, the coordinates for Plainsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).