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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Social Island 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 Social Island. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Social Island. Our list contains 108 papers that were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Social Island.

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 Social Island.  

Newspapers Neighboring Social Island ...

The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km] of Social Island.

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

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- Social Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Social Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8848, Longitude: -77.7114       In this case, the coordinates for Social Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).