Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Norton.
Our newspaper information for Norton is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 13 papers that were published in the immediate area of Norton. In addition, the list contains another 16 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Norton. In total, we've identified 29 papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Norton.
Newspapers Published In Norton ...
We know of 13 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Norton:
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1919)
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1924)
- Norton Free Press (from 1902)
- The Church Journal (from 1923)
- The Clinch Valley Baptist (from 1913)
- The Coalfield Progress (from 1924)
- The Daily Progress (from 1912)
- The Lone Eagle (from 1939)
- The Norton Reporter And Miners Enterprise (from 1917)
- The Norton Reporter (from 1915)
- The Salmagundi (from 194?)
- The Virginia Digest (from 1926)
- Wise County News (from 1911)
Newspapers Neighboring Norton ...
The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Norton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Norton.
- Published In Wise [Wise County] ...
- 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 [Wise County] ...
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
- Published In Coeburn [Wise County] ...
- The Wise County Herald (from 1907)
- Published In Big Stone Gap [Wise County] ...
- Big Stone Gap Herald (from 18??)
- The Big Stone Gap Post (from 1892)
- The Big Stone Post (from 1890)
- The Mountain Empire News (from 1978)
- The Post (from 1928)
- Years of publication: 1928 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Post
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95079301
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33386628
- The Wise Owl (from 1936)
- Published In Jenkins [Letcher County] ...
- The Jenkins Recorder (from 1921)
- Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...
- Letcher County Leader (from 192?)
- The Mountain Eagle (from 1907)
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 from Point A (ie- Norton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Norton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9334, Longitude: -82.6290 In this case, the coordinates for Norton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |