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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Birmingham 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 Birmingham. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Birmingham. Our list contains 15 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Birmingham.

Newspapers Neighboring Birmingham ...

The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km] of Birmingham.

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

  • Published In Richlands  ...
  • Published In Honaker [Russell County] ...
    • Honaker Herald (from 1909)
    • The Honaker Press (from 1950)
    • The Honaker Times (from 1991)
  • Published In Henderson [Washington County] ...
    • Westminster (from 19??)
  • Published In Saltville [Smyth County] ...
  • Published In Tazewell  ...
    • Daily Republican (from 1897)
    • Mountain Index (from 1886)
    • Tazewell Republican (from 1892)

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- Birmingham) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Birmingham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0726, Longitude: -81.8137       In this case, the coordinates for Birmingham have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).