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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ocran 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 Ocran. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ocran. Our list contains 9 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Ocran.

Newspapers Neighboring Ocran ...

The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Ocran.

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

  • Published In Irvington  ...
    • Virginia Citizen (from 1891)
  • Published In Kilmarnock  ...
  • Published In Wicomico Church [Northumberland County] ...
  • Published In Stormont [Middlesex County] ...
  • Published In Urbanna [Middlesex County] ...
  • Published In Mathews [Mathews County] ...

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- Ocran) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ocran. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6593, Longitude: -76.3497       In this case, the coordinates for Ocran have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).