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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Whitman 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 Whitman. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Whitman. Our list contains 79 papers that were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Whitman.

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 Whitman.  

Newspapers Neighboring Whitman ...

The following newspapers were published within 7 miles [11.3 km] of Whitman.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whitman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whitman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9168, Longitude: -75.1555       In this case, the coordinates for Whitman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).