Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oakland.
Our newspaper information for Oakland 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 Oakland. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oakland. Our list contains 66 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Oakland.
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 Oakland.
Newspapers Neighboring Oakland ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Oakland.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oakland.
- Published In Toano ...
- The James City Journal (from 19??)
- The James City Press (from 1949)
- The James-York Tidings (from 1970)
- Published In Williamsburg [Williamsburg City] ...
- We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Williamsburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Williamsburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Oakland. This extended list includes all the papers from Williamsburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oakland
- Published In Eltham [New Kent County] ...
- New Kent-Charles City Chronicle (from 1994)
- Published In West Point [King William County] ...
- Brookshire Camp's Tall Pines (from 1937)
- Tall Pines Of Brookshire (from 193?)
- The Plain Dealer And Southern Immigrationist (from 188?)
- The Plaindealer (from 189?)
- The Tidewater Review (from 1928)
- The West Point News (from 1914)
- West Point Star (from 1871)
- West Point Virginian (from 1886)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oakland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3683, Longitude: -76.7892 In this case, the coordinates for Oakland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |