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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Shawtown 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 Shawtown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Shawtown. Our list contains 58 papers that were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Shawtown.

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 Shawtown.  

Newspapers Neighboring Shawtown ...

The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km] of Shawtown.

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

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- Shawtown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shawtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3348, Longitude: -79.7050       In this case, the coordinates for Shawtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).