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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Buncombe 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 Buncombe. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Buncombe. Our list contains 11 papers that were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Buncombe.

Newspapers Neighboring Buncombe ...

The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km] of Buncombe.

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

  • Published In Blountville  ...
    • Sullivan County News (from 1944)
    • The Central Star (from 1879)
      • The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Central Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98069503
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 39395344
  • Published In Bluff City  ...
  • Published In Bristol  ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Buncombe) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buncombe. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5118, Longitude: -82.3171       In this case, the coordinates for Buncombe have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).