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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Smoketown 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 Smoketown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Smoketown. Our list contains 112 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Smoketown.

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 Smoketown.  

Newspapers Neighboring Smoketown ...

The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of Smoketown.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Smoketown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smoketown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9490, Longitude: -77.5755       In this case, the coordinates for Smoketown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).