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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Americus 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 Americus. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Americus. Our list contains 62 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Americus.

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 Americus.  

Newspapers Neighboring Americus ...

The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Americus.

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

  • Published In Buena Vista  ...
  • Published In Granite  ...
    • Granite Pay-streak (from 1894)
    • The Granite Courier (from 1898)
    • The Granite Mining Journal (from 18??)
  • Published In Nathrop  ...
  • Published In Saint Elmo  ...
  • Published In Twin Lakes [Lake County] ...
  • Published In Tincup [Gunnison County] ...
  • Published In Turret  ...
    • Turret Gold Belt (from 1899)
  • Published In Balfour [Park County] ...
    • The Balfour News (from 1894)
      • The first year of publication was in 1894, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Balfour News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90051229
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21353053
  • Published In Fairplay [Park County] ...
  • Published In Leadville [Lake County] ...
    • We know of 31 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Leadville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Leadville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Americus. This extended list includes all the papers from Leadville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Americus
  • Published In Alma [Park County] ...
  • Published In Pitkin [Gunnison County] ...
    • The Pitkin Bulletin (from 1893)
    • The Pitkin Independent (from 1880)
    • The Pitkin Miner (from 1890)
    • The Pitkin Mining News (from 1881)
  • Published In Salida  ...
  • Published In Whitepine [Gunnison County] ...
    • White Pine Cone (from 1883)
    • White Pine Journal (from 1881)

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Americus. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Chaffee County: www.chaffeecounty.org/

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Americus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Americus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9025, Longitude: -106.1656       In this case, the coordinates for Americus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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