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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for LaFayette 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 8 papers that were published in the immediate area of LaFayette. In addition, the list contains another 48 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded LaFayette. In total, we've identified 56 papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of LaFayette.

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 LaFayette.  

Newspapers Published In LaFayette ...

We know of 8 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of LaFayette:

Newspapers Neighboring LaFayette ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of LaFayette.

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

  • Published In Lanett  ...
  • Published In Camp Hill [Tallapoosa County] ...
    • Camp Hill News (from 1907)
    • Camp Hill Star (from 1924)
    • The Camp Hill News (from 1949)
    • The Camp Hill Times (from 1900)
    • The Independent (from 189?)
    • The Tallapoosa News (from 1914)
  • Published In Opelika [Lee County] ...
    • We know of 40 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Opelika. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Opelika
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of LaFayette. This extended list includes all the papers from Opelika. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for LaFayette
  • Published In Roanoke [Randolph County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- LaFayette) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in LaFayette. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8998, Longitude: -85.4013