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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Jacobs Fork 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 Jacobs Fork. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Jacobs Fork. Our list contains 13 papers that were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Jacobs Fork.

Newspapers Neighboring Jacobs Fork ...

The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km] of Jacobs Fork.

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

  • Published In War  ...
  • Published In Tazewell [Tazewell County] ...
    • Daily Republican (from 1897)
    • Mountain Index (from 1886)
    • Tazewell Republican (from 1892)
  • Published In Richlands [Tazewell County] ...
  • Published In Welch  ...
  • Published In Keystone  ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Jacobs Fork) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jacobs Fork. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2279, Longitude: -81.5929       In this case, the coordinates for Jacobs Fork have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).