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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Backbone 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 Backbone. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Backbone. Our list contains 36 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Backbone.

Newspapers Neighboring Backbone ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Backbone.

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

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- Backbone) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Backbone. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7732, Longitude: -80.1553       In this case, the coordinates for Backbone have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).