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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Dorchester Junction 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 Dorchester Junction. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Dorchester Junction. Our list contains 29 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Dorchester Junction.

Newspapers Neighboring Dorchester Junction ...

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

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

  • Published In Norton [Norton City] ...
  • 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 Appalachia  ...
  • Published In Big Stone Gap  ...
  • Published In Coeburn  ...
  • Published In Jenkins [Letcher County] ...
  • Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...

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- Dorchester Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dorchester Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9282, Longitude: -82.6540       In this case, the coordinates for Dorchester Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).