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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Childress 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 Childress. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Childress. Our list contains 30 papers that were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of Childress.

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 Childress.  

Newspapers Neighboring Childress ...

The following newspapers were published within 8 miles [12.9 km] of Childress.

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

  • Published In Bluff City  ...
  • Published In Elizabethton [Carter County] ...
  • 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 Johnson City [Washington County] ...
    • We know of 30 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Johnson City. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Johnson City
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of Childress. This extended list includes all the papers from Johnson City. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Childress

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- Childress) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Childress. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4276, Longitude: -82.2649       In this case, the coordinates for Childress have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).