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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Three Forks 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 Three Forks. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Three Forks. Our list contains 102 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Three Forks.

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 Three Forks.  

Newspapers Neighboring Three Forks ...

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

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

  • Published In Rustburg  ...
  • 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 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Three Forks. 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 Three Forks
  • Published In Appomattox [Appomattox County] ...
    • The Lee-Grant (from 1935)
    • The Review (from 1903)
    • The Times-Virginian (from 1909)
  • Published In Brookneal  ...
    • Union Star (from 1912)
      • Years of publication:  1912 to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Union Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94002516
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15802174
    • Union Star (from 1916)
  • Published In Altavista  ...

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- Three Forks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Three Forks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2426, Longitude: -79.0509       In this case, the coordinates for Three Forks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).