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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Dwight 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 Dwight. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Dwight. Our list contains 18 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Dwight.

Newspapers Neighboring Dwight ...

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

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

  • Published In Franklin [Franklin City] ...
    • Blackwater Courier (from 1891)
    • Franklin Gazette (from 1880)
    • Southhampton Democrat (from 188?)
    • The Graphic (from 1900)
    • The Tidewater News (from 1905)
  • Published In Smithfield  ...
    • The Smithfield Times (from 1920)
    • The Smithfield Times (from 1998)
    • The Times (from 1985)
  • Published In Suffolk [Suffolk City] ...

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- Dwight) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dwight. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8532, Longitude: -76.8122       In this case, the coordinates for Dwight have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).