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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Altonville 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 Altonville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Altonville. Our list contains 34 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Altonville.

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 Altonville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Altonville ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Altonville.

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

  • Published In Rogersville  ...
    • We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rogersville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Rogersville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Altonville. This extended list includes all the papers from Rogersville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Altonville
  • Published In Whitesburg [Hamblen County] ...
  • Published In Bean Station [Grainger County] ...
    • Grainger Today (from 2004)
  • Published In Sneedville [Hancock County] ...
    • Hancock County News (from 194?)
    • Hancock County Post (from 1966)
    • Sneedville Times (from 1936)
    • The Hancock Courier (from 1895)
    • The Hancock News (from 1981)
    • The Sneedville News (from 191?)

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- Altonville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Altonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3981, Longitude: -83.1235       In this case, the coordinates for Altonville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).