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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Hightown 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 Hightown. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Hightown. Our list contains 17 papers that were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Hightown.

Newspapers Neighboring Hightown ...

The following newspapers were published within 28 miles [45.1 km] of Hightown.

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

  • Published In Monterey  ...
    • Highland Recorder (from 1877)
    • The Recorder (from 1972)
  • Published In Franklin [Pendleton County] ...
    • Mountain News (from 1884)
    • Pendleton County News (from 1884)
    • Pendleton Times (from 1913)
    • South Branch Review (from 1894)
    • The Herald (from 1929)
    • The Pendleton News (from 1874)
  • Published In Warm Springs [Bath County] ...
  • Published In Marlinton [Pocahontas County] ...

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- Hightown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hightown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4312, Longitude: -79.6319       In this case, the coordinates for Hightown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).