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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Colvintown 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 Colvintown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Colvintown. Our list contains 368 papers that were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Colvintown.

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 Colvintown.  

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Newspapers Neighboring Colvintown ...

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

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

  • Published In Arctic  ...
  • Published In Phenix  ...
  • Published In Apponaug  ...
  • Published In Warwick  ...
  • Published In Cranston [Providence County] ...
  • Published In Greenville [Providence County] ...
  • Published In Providence [Providence County] ...
    • We know of 363 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Providence. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Providence
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Colvintown. This extended list includes all the papers from Providence. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Colvintown.

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  • Published In Wickford [Washington County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Colvintown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Colvintown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7182, Longitude: -71.5717       In this case, the coordinates for Colvintown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).