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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Colony 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 Colony. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Colony. Our list contains 105 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Colony.

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 Colony.  

Newspapers Neighboring Colony ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Colony.

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

  • Published In Lynchburg [Lynchburg City] ...
    • We know of 95 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lynchburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lynchburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Colony. This extended list includes all the papers from Lynchburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Colony
  • Published In Rustburg [Campbell County] ...
  • Published In Amherst  ...

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- Colony) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Colony. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4143, Longitude: -79.1178       In this case, the coordinates for Colony have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).