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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Wakefield 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 Wakefield. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wakefield. Our list contains 17 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Wakefield.

Newspapers Neighboring Wakefield ...

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

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

  • Published In Waverly  ...
  • Published In Surry [Surry County] ...
  • Published In Claremont [Surry County] ...
  • Published In Franklin [Franklin City] ...
    • Blackwater Courier (from 1891)
    • Franklin Gazette (from 1880)
    • Southhampton Democrat (from 188?)
    • The Graphic (from 1900)
    • The Tidewater News (from 1905)
  • Published In Smithfield [Isle of Wight County] ...
    • The Smithfield Times (from 1920)
    • The Smithfield Times (from 1998)
    • The Times (from 1985)

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- Wakefield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wakefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9686, Longitude: -76.9875       In this case, the coordinates for Wakefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).