Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Appalachia.
Our newspaper information for Appalachia 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 1 papers that were published in the immediate area of Appalachia. In addition, the list contains another 29 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Appalachia. In total, we've identified 30 papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Appalachia.
Newspapers Published In Appalachia ...
We know of only one newspaper that was published in the Appalachia area:
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
Newspapers Neighboring Appalachia ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Appalachia.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Appalachia.
- Published In Big Stone Gap ...
- Big Stone Gap Herald (from 18??)
- The Big Stone Gap Post (from 1892)
- The Big Stone Post (from 1890)
- The Mountain Empire News (from 1978)
- The Post (from 1928)
- Years of publication: 1928 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Post
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95079301
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33386628
- The Wise Owl (from 1936)
- Published In Norton [Norton City] ...
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1919)
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1924)
- Norton Free Press (from 1902)
- The Church Journal (from 1923)
- The Clinch Valley Baptist (from 1913)
- The Coalfield Progress (from 1924)
- The Daily Progress (from 1912)
- The Lone Eagle (from 1939)
- The Norton Reporter And Miners Enterprise (from 1917)
- The Norton Reporter (from 1915)
- The Salmagundi (from 194?)
- The Virginia Digest (from 1926)
- Wise County News (from 1911)
- Published In Wise ...
- Highland Cavalier (from 1954)
- The Liberal (from 1929)
- The Vagabond Gazette (from 1928)
- The Wise Gazette (from 1927)
- The Wise News (from 1901)
- Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...
- Letcher County Leader (from 192?)
- The Mountain Eagle (from 1907)
- Published In Clinchport [Scott County] ...
- Cedarhurst News (from 1940)
- Lonesome Pine Chronicle (from 1935)
- Whispering Breeze (from 1937)
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 from Point A (ie- Appalachia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Appalachia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9064, Longitude: -82.7812 |