Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Peterson.
Our newspaper information for Peterson 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 Peterson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Peterson. Our list contains 15 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Peterson.
Newspapers Neighboring Peterson ...
The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of Peterson.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Peterson.
- Published In Clinchport ...
- Cedarhurst News (from 1940)
- Lonesome Pine Chronicle (from 1935)
- Whispering Breeze (from 1937)
- 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 Appalachia [Wise County] ...
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
- Published In Pennington Gap [Lee County] ...
- The Powell Valley News (from 1921)
- Published In Gate City ...
- Scott County Herald-Virginian (from 19??)
- Scott County Virginia Star (from 1984)
- The Gate City Herald (from 1903)
- The Scott County News (from 1946)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Peterson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Peterson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7284, Longitude: -82.7974 In this case, the coordinates for Peterson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |