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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ben Hur 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 Ben Hur. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ben Hur. Our list contains 16 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Ben Hur.

Newspapers Neighboring Ben Hur ...

The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Ben Hur.

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

  • Published In Jonesville  ...
  • Published In Pennington Gap  ...
  • Published In Harlan [Harlan County] ...
  • Published In Sneedville [Hancock County] ...
    • Hancock County News (from 194?)
    • Hancock County Post (from 1966)
    • Sneedville Times (from 1936)
    • The Hancock Courier (from 1895)
    • The Hancock News (from 1981)
    • The Sneedville News (from 191?)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ben Hur) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ben Hur. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7329, Longitude: -83.0821       In this case, the coordinates for Ben Hur have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).