Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wells.
Our newspaper information for Wells 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 Wells. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wells. Our list contains 44 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Wells.
Newspapers Neighboring Wells ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Wells.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Wells.
- Published In Norton [Norton City] ...
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1919)
- Crawford's Weekly (from 1924)
- Norton Free Press (from 1902)
- The Church Journal (from 1923)
- The Clinch Valley Baptist (from 1913)
- The Coalfield Progress (from 1924)
- The Daily Progress (from 1912)
- The Lone Eagle (from 1939)
- The Norton Reporter And Miners Enterprise (from 1917)
- The Norton Reporter (from 1915)
- The Salmagundi (from 194?)
- The Virginia Digest (from 1926)
- Wise County News (from 1911)
- Published In Wise ...
- Highland Cavalier (from 1954)
- The Liberal (from 1929)
- The Vagabond Gazette (from 1928)
- The Wise Gazette (from 1927)
- The Wise News (from 1901)
- Published In Coeburn ...
- The Wise County Herald (from 1907)
- Published In Appalachia ...
- Appalachia Independent (from 1920)
- Published In Big Stone Gap ...
- Big Stone Gap Herald (from 18??)
- The Big Stone Gap Post (from 1892)
- The Big Stone Post (from 1890)
- The Mountain Empire News (from 1978)
- The Post (from 1928)
- Years of publication: 1928 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Post
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95079301
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 33386628
- The Wise Owl (from 1936)
- Published In Jenkins [Letcher County] ...
- The Jenkins Recorder (from 1921)
- Published In Cromona [Letcher County] ...
- Letcher County Community News-Press (from 1988)
- The Letcher County Community Press (from 1960)
- Published In Whitesburg [Letcher County] ...
- Letcher County Leader (from 192?)
- The Mountain Eagle (from 1907)
- Published In Clintwood [Dickenson County] ...
- Clintwood Journal (from 1908)
- Clintwood News (from 1909)
- Dickenson County Herald (from 1939)
- Dickenson County Moon (from 1914)
- Dickenson County News (from 1918)
- Lonesome Pine (from 1936)
- The Cumberland Times (from 1966)
- The Dickenson County Herald (from 1927)
- The Dickenson County School Forum (from 1926)
- The Dickenson Forum (from 1934)
- The Dickensonian (from 1942)
- The Mountaineer (from 19??)
- The School Forum (from 1924)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
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The official website for Wise County: www.wisecounty.org/
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
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- Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9654, Longitude: -82.6193 In this case, the coordinates for Wells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |