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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Big Creek 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 Big Creek. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Big Creek. Our list contains 33 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Big Creek.

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 Big Creek.  

Newspapers Neighboring Big Creek ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Big Creek.

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

  • 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 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Big Creek. 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 Big Creek
  • 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?)
  • Published In Whitesburg [Hamblen County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Big Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4737, Longitude: -82.9432       In this case, the coordinates for Big Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).