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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Sheppton 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 Sheppton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sheppton. Our list contains 29 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Sheppton.

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 Sheppton.  

Newspapers Neighboring Sheppton ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Sheppton.

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

  • Published In Mahanoy City  ...
  • Published In McAdoo  ...
    • McAdoo Eagle (from 193?)
    • The McAdoo Siftings (from 1896)
    • The Town Democrat (from 1945)
  • Published In Shenandoah  ...
  • Published In Conyngham [Luzerne County] ...
    • Valley Herald (from 1898)
  • Published In Frackville  ...
  • Published In Tamaqua  ...
  • Published In Saint Johns [Luzerne County] ...
    • Valley Vigilant (from 1903)
  • Published In Berwick [Columbia County] ...
    • We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Berwick. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Berwick
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Sheppton. This extended list includes all the papers from Berwick. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Sheppton

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 from Point A (ie- Sheppton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sheppton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8976, Longitude: -76.1177       In this case, the coordinates for Sheppton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).