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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Waterfall Lake 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 Waterfall Lake. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Waterfall Lake. Our list contains 39 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Waterfall Lake.

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 Waterfall Lake.  

Newspapers Neighboring Waterfall Lake ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Waterfall Lake.

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

  • Published In Roanoke [Roanoke City] ...
    • We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Roanoke. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Roanoke
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Waterfall Lake. This extended list includes all the papers from Roanoke. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Waterfall Lake
  • Published In Vinton  ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Waterfall Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Waterfall Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3521, Longitude: -79.9248       In this case, the coordinates for Waterfall Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).