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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Sandy Hook 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 Sandy Hook. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sandy Hook. Our list contains 115 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Sandy Hook.

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 Sandy Hook.  

Newspapers Neighboring Sandy Hook ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of Sandy Hook.

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

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- Sandy Hook) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sandy Hook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9951, Longitude: -77.7778       In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Hook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).