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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for North Smithfield 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 North Smithfield. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding North Smithfield. Our list contains 49 papers that were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of North Smithfield.

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 North Smithfield.  

Newspapers Neighboring North Smithfield ...

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

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

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 drawn from Point A (ie- North Smithfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in North Smithfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9668, Longitude: -71.5495       In this case, the coordinates for North Smithfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).