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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Poplar Ridge 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 Poplar Ridge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Poplar Ridge. Our list contains 50 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Poplar Ridge.

Newspapers Neighboring Poplar Ridge ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Poplar Ridge.

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

  • Published In Obion [Obion County] ...
  • Published In Newbern  ...
    • Newbern Enquirer (from 187?)
    • The Dyer County Tennessean (from 1975)
    • The Newbern Tennessean
    • The Tennessean (from 196?)
    • The Tennesseean (from 188?)
      • The first year of publication was in 188?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Tennesseean
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89058209
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19121558
  • Published In Troy [Obion County] ...
    • Obion County News (from 1873)
  • Published In Ridgely [Lake County] ...
  • Published In Dyersburg  ...
  • Published In Rutherford [Gibson County] ...
  • Published In Dyer [Gibson County] ...
  • Published In Tiptonville [Lake County] ...
  • Published In Union City [Obion County] ...
  • Published In Friendship [Crockett County] ...
    • Tri-County News (from 19??)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Poplar Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Poplar Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.2073, Longitude: -89.2453       In this case, the coordinates for Poplar Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).