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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Lights Ferry 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 Lights Ferry. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Lights Ferry. Our list contains 54 papers that were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Lights Ferry.

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 Lights Ferry.  

Newspapers Neighboring Lights Ferry ...

The following newspapers were published within 6 miles [9.7 km] of Lights Ferry.

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

  • Published In Williamsport [Washington County] ...
  • Published In Hagerstown [Washington County] ...
    • We know of 54 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Hagerstown. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Hagerstown
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> of Lights Ferry. This extended list includes all the papers from Hagerstown. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Lights Ferry

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lights Ferry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lights Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5995, Longitude: -77.8306       In this case, the coordinates for Lights Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).