Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Fort Smith.
Our newspaper information for Fort Smith 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 80 papers that were published in the immediate area of Fort Smith. In addition, the list contains another 63 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Fort Smith. In total, we've identified 143 papers within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Fort Smith.
Newspapers Published In Fort Smith ...
We know of 80 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Fort Smith:
- Arkansas Developer (from 1894)
- Arkansas Labor CIO Journal (from 1942)
- Arkansas Patriot (from 1871)
- Arkansas Weekly Patriot (from 1872)
- Daily Fort Smith Tribune (from 1884)
- Daily Herald (from 1915)
- Daily Times-Democrat (from 189?)
- Evening Call (from 1890)
- The first year of publication was in 1890, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Evening Call
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86090864
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15201691
- Fort Smith Bulletin (from 1862)
- Fort Smith Daily Herald (from 1881)
- Fort Smith Daily Herald (from 1877)
- Fort Smith Daily Journal (from 1887)
- Continue List (68 more) ...
- Fort Smith Daily News (from 1920)
- Fort Smith Daily Times And Herald (from 1861)
- Fort Smith Daily Times (from 1884)
- Fort Smith Daily Tribune (from 1885)
- Fort Smith Democrat (from 1895)
- Fort Smith Elevator (from 1878)
- Fort Smith Elevator (from 1881)
- Fort Smith Enterprise (from 1895)
- Fort Smith Free Press (from 1925)
- Fort Smith Herald (from 1873)
- Fort Smith Herald (from 1847)
- Fort Smith Herald (from 1865)
- Fort Smith Journal (from 1926)
- Fort Smith Kodak (from 1896)
- Fort Smith New Era (from 1863)
- Fort Smith News Record (from 1893)
- Fort Smith News (from 19??)
- Fort Smith Republican (from 1890)
- Fort Smith Standard (from 1867)
- Fort Smith Times Record (from 1909)
- Fort Smith Times-Sun (from 1898)
- Fort Smith Times=democrat (from 1896)
- Fort Smith Times (from 1858)
- Fort Smith Times (from 1894)
- Fort Smith Tri-Weekly Bulletin (from 1862)
- Fort Smith Tribune (from 1930)
- Fort Smith Weekly Herald (from 1867)
- Fort Smith Weekly Herald (from 1877)
- Fort Smith Weekly Journal (from 1887)
- Fort Smith Weekly New Era (from 1870)
- Fort Smith Weekly Times (from 1889)
- Labor And Business Journal (from 19??)
- Rough On Rats (from 1896)
- The first year of publication was in 1896, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Rough On Rats
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93050607
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 28814247
- Saturday City Item (from 1901)
- Southwest American (from 1907)
- Southwest Labor (from 195?)
- Southwest Times Record (from 1969)
- The Appreciator-Union
- The Arkansas News Tribune (from 1966)
- The Border/Advertiser (from 1967)
- The Daily Independent-True Democrat (from 1884)
- The Daily News Record (from 1893)
- The Diocese Of Arkansas (from 188?)
- The Evening News (from 1884)
- The Fort Smith Herald And New Elevator (from 1912)
- The Fort Smith Herald (from 1880)
- The Fort Smith Union (from 1863)
- The Fort Smith Weekly Journal (from 1934)
- The Fort Smithian (from 1943)
- The Independent-True Democrat (from 1883)
- The Labor Journal (from 1945)
- The Labor Journal (from 19??)
- The Sunday Boomerang (from 188?)
- The Sun (from 189?)
- Years of publication: 189? to 1898
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86090890
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15209289
- The Union Sentinel (from 1903)
- The Weekly New Era (from 1879)
- The Weekly News (from 1884)
- The first year of publication was in 1884, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Weekly News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN89051186
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 19620978
- The X-Ray Bulletin (from 1912)
- The-Four-leaf-clover And Club Women's Journal (from 1914)
- Thirty-fifth Parallel (from 1859)
- Times & Herald Bulletin (from 186?)
- Tri-Weekly Fort Smith Herald (from 1870)
- Tri-Weekly New Era (from 1870)
- Western Independent (from 1872)
- Wheelers' Daily Independent (from 1879)
- Wheelers' Independent Daily Fair Edition (from 1880)
- Wheelers' Independent (from 1878)
- Wheelers' Western Independent (from 1877)
Newspapers Neighboring Fort Smith ...
The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Fort Smith.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Fort Smith.
- Published In Fort Chaffee ...
- Chaffeegram (from 1980)
- Crossroads (from 1978)
- Helping Hand (from 1975)
- La Vida Nueva (from 1980)
- Published In Van Buren [Crawford County] ...
- 759th Choo-choo News (from 1943)
- Arkansas Intelligencer (from 1842)
- Crawford Bulletin (from 1874)
- Crawford County Journal (from 1894)
- Democratic Dialogue (from 1983)
- Press Argus-Courier (from 1985)
- The Arkansas Agitator (from 1883)
- The Arkansas Times (from 1895)
- The Press-Argus (from 1928)
- The Van Buren Argus (from 1875)
- The Van Buren Graphic (from 1881)
- The Van Buren Press (from 1859)
- Van Buren Daily Argus (from 1897)
- Van Buren Daily Optic (from 1885)
- Van Buren Daily Press-Argus (from 1922)
- Van Buren Daily Press-Argus (from 1916)
- Van Buren Daily Venture (from 1893)
- Van Buren Evening News (from 1923)
- Van Buren Press-Argus (from 1914)
- Van Buren Press-Argus (from 1914)
- Van Buren Weekly Argus (from 1906)
- Western Frontier Whig (from 1844)
- Published In Roland [Sequoyah County] ...
- The Sequoyah County Sun (from 1994)
- Published In Alma [Crawford County] ...
- Arkansas Valley Times (from 1974)
- The Alma News-Herald (from 1960)
- The Alma News (from 1952)
- Published In Lavaca ...
- Published In Greenwood ...
- Sebastian County News (from 1939)
- The Greenwood Democrat (from 188?)
- The Greenwood Times (from 1883)
- Published In Hackett ...
- Hackett City Horse Shoe (from 188?)
- Published In Muldrow [Sequoyah County] ...
- Big Basin Herald (from 1971)
- The Muldrow Herald (from 1965)
- The Muldrow Sun (from 1915)
- Published In Auburn ...
- Auburn Reporter (from 1881)
- The first year of publication was in 1881, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Auburn Reporter
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92050086
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25924363
- Published In Spiro [Le Flore County] ...
- The Spiro Graphic (from 1962)
- Published In Charleston [Franklin County] ...
- Charleston Express (from 1900)
- The Charleston Vindicator (from 1881)
- Published In Midland ...
- The Midland Post (from 1909)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Published In Mulberry [Crawford County] ...
- Crawford County Bulletin (from 1939)
- Crawford County Bulletin (from 1951)
- Crawford County Siftings (from 1902)
- The Crawford County Leader
- The Mulberry Journal (from 1951)
- The Mulberry Times (from 1921)
- Published In Huntington ...
- The Democrat (from 1894)
- The Huntington Democrat (from 1892)
- The Huntington Enterprise (from 1930)
- The Huntington Herald (from 1888)
- The Huntington Hummer (from 1888)
- Published In Panama [Le Flore County] ...
- Free Will Baptist Banner (from 1907)
- Published In Mansfield ...
- Mansfield American (from 1905)
- Mansfield Messenger (from 1910)
- Mansfield Weekly News (from 1891)
- The Alliance Patriot (from 1891)
- The Citizen (from 1967)
- Published In Branch [Franklin County] ...
- The Branch Argus (from 1921)
- Published In Hartford ...
- Hartford Observer (from 1899)
- The Hartford Developer (from 1900)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Fort Smith: www.fsark.com/
The official website for Sebastian County: www.sebastiancountyonline.com/
The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/
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- Fort Smith) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Smith. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3629, Longitude: -94.3727 |