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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Harper 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 Harper. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Harper. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Harper.

Newspapers Neighboring Harper ...

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

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

  • Published In Big Stone Gap  ...
  • Published In Appalachia  ...
  • 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 Clinchport [Scott County] ...
  • Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...
  • Published In Pennington Gap [Lee County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Harper) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Harper. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8782, Longitude: -82.7790       In this case, the coordinates for Harper have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).