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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for East Ridge is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 2 papers that were published in the immediate area of East Ridge. In addition, the list contains another 87 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded East Ridge. In total, we've identified 89 papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of East Ridge.

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 East Ridge.  

Newspapers Published In East Ridge ...

The following newspapers have been published in the immediate area of East Ridge:

  • East Ridge Sun (from 1953)
  • The East Ridge Sun (from 1958)

Newspapers Neighboring East Ridge ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of East Ridge.

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

  • Published In Rossville [Walker County] ...
  • Published In Chattanooga  ...
    • We know of 87 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chattanooga. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Chattanooga
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of East Ridge. This extended list includes all the papers from Chattanooga. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for East Ridge

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- East Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in East Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9973, Longitude: -85.2284       In this case, the coordinates for East Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).