Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of South Charleston.
Our newspaper information for South Charleston is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 1 papers that were published in the immediate area of South Charleston. In addition, the list contains another 106 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded South Charleston. In total, we've identified 107 papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of South Charleston.
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 South Charleston.
Newspapers Published In South Charleston ...
We know of only one newspaper that was published in the South Charleston area:
- South Charleston Advocate (from 1984)
Newspapers Neighboring South Charleston ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of South Charleston.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from South Charleston.
- Published In Dunbar ...
- Kanawha Valley News (from 1931)
- The Dunbar Advance (from 1917)
- The Dunbar Advance (from 1937)
- The Dunbar News Advertiser (from 1961)
- The Times-Advance (from 1940)
- Published In Charleston ...
- We know of 93 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Charleston. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Charleston
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of South Charleston. This extended list includes all the papers from Charleston. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for South Charleston
- Published In Cross Lanes ...
- Cross Lanes Record (from 1975)
- Published In Saint Albans ...
- Kanawha Democrat (from 1887)
- The first year of publication was in 1887, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Kanawha Democrat
- Holdings for: LCCN SN94058006
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 29741692
- Kanawha Valley Democrat (from 1882)
- St. Albans Advertiser (from 1926)
- St. Albans Express (from 1879)
- St. Albans Herald (from 1910)
- St. Albans Nonpareil (from 1881)
- St. Albans Reporter (from 1896)
- The Kanawha Independent (from 1874)
- The St. Albans Pioneer (from 1871)
- The St. Albans Times (from 1952)
- Published In Nitro ...
- Kanawha Valley Leader (from 1944)
- Published In Belle ...
- The Kanawha Citizen (from 1950)
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- South Charleston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in South Charleston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3495, Longitude: -81.7094 In this case, the coordinates for South Charleston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |