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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rip Rap 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 Rip Rap. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rip Rap. Our list contains 37 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Rip Rap.

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 Rip Rap.  

Newspapers Neighboring Rip Rap ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Rip Rap.

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

  • Published In Clarksville [Mecklenburg County] ...
  • Published In Scottsburg [Fluvanna County] ...
    • The Fork News (from 1936)
    • The Fork News (from 1937)
  • Published In South Boston  ...
    • Halifax Gazette (from 1903)
    • News & Record (from 1974)
    • The Gazette-Virginian (from 1963)
    • The News (from 1890)
      • Years of publication:  1890 to 1929
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96094026
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 34630914
    • The South Boston News (from 1929)
  • Published In Stovall [Granville County] ...
  • Published In Halifax  ...
  • Published In Berea [Granville County] ...
    • Berea Gazette (from 1876)
      • The first year of publication was in 1876, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Berea Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068278
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20665745
  • Published In Roxboro [Person County] ...
  • Published In Oxford [Granville County] ...
    • We know of 27 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oxford. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Oxford
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Rip Rap. This extended list includes all the papers from Oxford. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rip Rap
  • Published In Boydton [Mecklenburg County] ...

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 from Point A (ie- Rip Rap) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rip Rap. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5774, Longitude: -78.7411       In this case, the coordinates for Rip Rap have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).