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Below are 14 newspapers that have been published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Rift. The list has been sorted by paper name.

  Big Creek Home News  

Published in War [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1978 to 1981

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13048156

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Big Creek Home News

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092089

  Daily Republican  

Published in Tazewell (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Published in 1897

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 40991182

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Daily Republican

Holdings for: LCCN SN99066746

  McDowell Recorder  

Published in Welch [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1890 to 1943

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13032827

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the McDowell Recorder

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092048

 
  Mountain Index  

Published in Tazewell (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1886 to 1888

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 32265278

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Mountain Index

Holdings for: LCCN SN95079090

  Richlands News-Press  

Published in Richlands (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1966 to current

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 45903815

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Richlands News-Press

Holdings for: LCCN SN00064818

 
  Richlands Press  

Published in Richlands (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1945 to 1966

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 45112993

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Catalog Card for the Richlands Press

Holdings for: LCCN SN00064466

  Tazewell County Free Press  

Published in Richlands (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1976 to current

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 37046244

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Tazewell County Free Press

Holdings for: LCCN SN97066016

 
  Tazewell Republican  
Thumbnail for the Jan. 7, 1897 edition of the Tazewell Republican
Jan. 7,
1897

Published in Tazewell (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1892 to 1919

Locate a copy thru WorldCat:

OCLC 32574652

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card: Tazewell Republican

Holdings: LCCN SN95079154

ISSN Number: 2157-7994

Issues Available Online:

Number of scanned issues:   793

Scanned issues:

Jan. 7, 1897  to  Dec. 19, 1912

Catalog of available issues

 
  The Clinch Valley News  

Published in Richlands (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 11000710

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Clinch Valley News

Holdings for: LCCN SN84006511

 
  The Industrial News  

Published in Iaeger [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1923 to current

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13223043

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Industrial News

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092047

 
  The McDowell Republican  

Published in Welch [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1912 to 19??

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13032821

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The McDowell Republican

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092049

 
  The McDowell Times  

Published in Keystone [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1904 to 1941

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13032822

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The McDowell Times

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092050

 
  The News Progress  

Published in Richlands (VA) [Tazewell County (VA)]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1930 to 1966

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 44951754

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The News Progress

Holdings for: LCCN SN00064457

 
  The Welch Daily News  

Published in Welch [McDowell County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1923 to 2002

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13032831

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Welch Daily News

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092051

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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance that starts in Rift. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rift) to Point B.

Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rift. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2848, Longitude: -81.6718     [Map].   In this case, the coordinates for Rift have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

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