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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rivanna 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 Rivanna. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rivanna. Our list contains 62 papers that were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Rivanna.

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 Rivanna.  

Newspapers Neighboring Rivanna ...

The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km] of Rivanna.

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

  • Published In Charlottesville [Charlottesville City] ...
    • We know of 62 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Charlottesville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Charlottesville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Rivanna. This extended list includes all the papers from Charlottesville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rivanna

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rivanna) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rivanna. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.1249, Longitude: -78.4608       In this case, the coordinates for Rivanna have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).