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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Memphis 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 Memphis. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Memphis. Our list contains 209 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of West Memphis.

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 Memphis.  

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

Newspapers Neighboring West Memphis ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of West Memphis.

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

  • Published In Mound City  ...
  • Published In Memphis [Shelby County] ...
    • We know of 206 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Memphis. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Memphis
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of West Memphis. This extended list includes all the papers from Memphis. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Memphis.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Frayser [Shelby County] ...
  • Published In Earle  ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Memphis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Memphis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1531, Longitude: -90.1989       In this case, the coordinates for West Memphis have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).