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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Penn Forest 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 Penn Forest. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Penn Forest. Our list contains 100 papers that were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Penn Forest.

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 Penn Forest.  

Newspapers Neighboring Penn Forest ...

The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km] of Penn Forest.

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

  • Published In Lynchburg [Lynchburg City] ...
    • We know of 95 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lynchburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lynchburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Penn Forest. This extended list includes all the papers from Lynchburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Penn Forest
  • Published In Rustburg  ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Penn Forest) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Penn Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3457, Longitude: -79.2553       In this case, the coordinates for Penn Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).