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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Alton 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 Alton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Alton. Our list contains 127 papers that were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Alton.

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 Alton.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Alton ...

The following newspapers were published within 26 miles [41.8 km] of Alton.

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

  • Published In Jonesville [Catahoula Parish] ...
  • Published In Trinity [Catahoula Parish] ...
  • Published In Ferriday  ...
  • Published In Harrisonburg [Catahoula Parish] ...
    • The Catahoula News (from 1873)
    • The Independent (from 1853)
    • The Independent (from 1853)
    • The New Era (from 186?)
      • The first year of publication was in 186?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The New Era
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064049
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17449990
  • Published In Vidalia  ...
  • Published In Natchez [Adams County] ...
    • We know of 108 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Natchez. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Natchez
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Alton. This extended list includes all the papers from Natchez. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Alton.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Marksville [Avoyelles Parish] ...

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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Alton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.4424, Longitude: -91.8121       In this case, the coordinates for Alton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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