Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Washington.
Our newspaper information for Washington 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 Washington. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Washington. Our list contains 46 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Washington.
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 Washington.
Newspapers Neighboring Washington ...
The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Washington.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Washington.
- Published In Torch [Athens County] ...
- The Torch Light (from 1886)
- Published In Belpre [Washington County] ...
- Published In Parkersburg ...
- We know of 46 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Parkersburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Parkersburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Washington. This extended list includes all the papers from Parkersburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Washington
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 from Point A (ie- Washington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Washington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2612, Longitude: -81.6718 In this case, the coordinates for Washington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |