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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Virginia Central Junction.

Our newspaper information for West Virginia Central Junction 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 West Virginia Central Junction. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Virginia Central Junction. Our list contains 26 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of West Virginia Central Junction.

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 West Virginia Central Junction.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Virginia Central Junction ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of West Virginia Central Junction.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from West Virginia Central Junction.

  • Published In Keyser  ...
  • Published In Lonaconing [Allegany County] ...
    • George's Creek Press (from 1874)
    • The Advocate (from 1911)
    • The Valley Times (from 1878)
  • Published In Elk Garden  ...
  • Published In Frostburg [Allegany County] ...
    • We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Frostburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Frostburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of West Virginia Central Junction. This extended list includes all the papers from Frostburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Virginia Central Junction

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- West Virginia Central Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Virginia Central Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4715, Longitude: -79.0611       In this case, the coordinates for West Virginia Central Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).