Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rafter.
Our newspaper information for Rafter 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 Rafter. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rafter. Our list contains 24 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Rafter.
Newspapers Neighboring Rafter ...
The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Rafter.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Rafter.
- Published In Tellico Plains ...
- The Tellico Scout (from 191?)
- Published In Madisonville ...
- Democrat, The Tellico Laker (from 1988)
- Democrat-Observer (from 1984)
- Democrat (from 1984)
- Years of publication: 1984 to 1988
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Democrat
- Holdings for: LCCN SN97065418
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 37602967
- Madisonville Democrat (from 189?)
- Madisonville Gazette (from 188?)
- Monroe Citizen (from 1963)
- Monroe County Monitor (from 1896)
- Monroe County Observer (from 1972)
- Observer (from 1979)
- Years of publication: 1979 to 1980
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Observer
- Holdings for: LCCN SN97065424
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 37603459
- Our County Citizen (from 189?)
- The Democrat And Tellico Laker (from 1991)
- The Independent Democrat/Tellico Laker (from 1989)
- The Independent-Gazette (from 189?)
- The Madisonville Tribune (from 1915)
- The Mini Democrat (from 1984)
- The Mini (from 1980)
- The Monroe County Citizen-Democrat (from 1964)
- The Monroe County Democrat (from 1968)
- The Tellico Laker (from 1987)
- Tri-County Observer (from 1977)
- Published In Englewood [McMinn County] ...
- McMinn County News (from 196?)
- Published In Etowah [McMinn County] ...
- Etowah Enterprise (from 1907)
- The Etowah Observer (from 1979)
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 from Point A (ie- Rafter) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rafter. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3926, Longitude: -84.1782 In this case, the coordinates for Rafter have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |