Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Big Stone Gap.
Our newspaper information for Big Stone Gap 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 6 papers that were published in the immediate area of Big Stone Gap. In addition, the list contains another 23 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Big Stone Gap. In total, we've identified 29 papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Big Stone Gap.
Newspapers Published In Big Stone Gap ...
We know of 6 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of 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)
Newspapers Neighboring Big Stone Gap ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Big Stone Gap.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Big Stone Gap.
- Published In Appalachia ...
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
- 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 Clinchport [Scott County] ...
- Cedarhurst News (from 1940)
- Lonesome Pine Chronicle (from 1935)
- Whispering Breeze (from 1937)
- 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 Pennington Gap [Lee County] ...
- The Powell Valley News (from 1921)
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 from Point A (ie- Big Stone Gap) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Stone Gap. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8697, Longitude: -82.7741 |