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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Fleet 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 Fleet. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Fleet. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Fleet.

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 Fleet.  

Newspapers Neighboring Fleet ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of Fleet.

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

  • Published In Glade Spring  ...
  • Published In Emory  ...
    • The Emory Banner (from 1872)
  • Published In Saltville [Smyth County] ...
  • Published In Henderson  ...
    • Westminster (from 19??)
  • Published In Damascus  ...
  • Published In Marion [Smyth County] ...
    • Conservative Democrat (from 1881)
    • Marion News (from 1896)
    • Marion Record (from 1866)
    • Marion Times (from 1887)
    • Marion Weekly Times (from 1888)
    • Neighbors (from 1936)
      • Years of publication:  1936 to 194?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Neighbors
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN00064497
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 43461801
    • Smyth County News & Messenger (from 1995)
    • Smyth County News (from 1926)
    • The American (from 1913)
    • The Harrisonian (from 1841)
    • The Marion Democrat (from 18??)
    • The Marion Ensign (from 1864)
    • The Marion Herald (from 1869)
    • The Marion Journal (from 1880)
    • The Southern Patriot (from 1871)
    • The Southern Star (from 1868)
  • Published In Abingdon  ...
    • We know of 31 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Abingdon. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Abingdon
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Fleet. This extended list includes all the papers from Abingdon. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Fleet

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fleet) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fleet. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7924, Longitude: -81.7418