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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Barytes 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 Barytes. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Barytes. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Barytes.

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 Barytes.  

Newspapers Neighboring Barytes ...

The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km] of Barytes.

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

  • Published In Bristol [Sullivan County] ...
  • Published In Blountville [Sullivan County] ...
    • Sullivan County News (from 1944)
    • The Central Star (from 1879)
      • The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Central Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98069503
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 39395344
  • Published In Bluff City [Sullivan County] ...
  • Published In Abingdon  ...
    • We know of 31 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Abingdon. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Abingdon
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Barytes. This extended list includes all the papers from Abingdon. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Barytes

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Barytes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Barytes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6221, Longitude: -82.1574       In this case, the coordinates for Barytes have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).