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.
The following list contains the names of 1 papers that were published in the immediate area of Alton. In addition, the list contains another 68 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Alton. In total, we've identified 69 papers within 27 miles [43.5 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.
Newspapers Published In Alton ...
We know of only one newspaper that was published in the Alton area:
- Our Paper (from 189?)
- The first year of publication was in 189?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Our Paper
- Holdings for: LCCN SN98061860
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 39374260
Newspapers Neighboring Alton ...
The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> 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 Rohnerville ...
- Eel River Echo (from 18??)
- The Rohnerville Herald (from 188?)
- Published In Fortuna ...
- Eel River Valley Advance (from 18??)
- Eel River Valley Advocate (from 18??)
- Eel Valley Advance (from 1970)
- Fortuna Advance And The Humboldt Weekly Tribune
- Fortuna Advance
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 19??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Fortuna Advance
- Holdings for: LCCN SN98061653
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 40096848
- Humboldt Beacon (from 1995)
- Semi-Weekly Advance
- The Fortuna Tribune (from 1948)
- The Humboldt Beacon And Fortuna Advance (from 1938)
- The Humboldt Beacon (from 19??)
- Published In Rio Dell ...
- Eel River Echo (from 19??)
- The Free Echo (from 1970)
- The Humboldt Independent And Sun (from 1969)
- The Humboldt Independent (from 19??)
- Published In Ferndale ...
- Ferndale Enterprise (from 1878)
- Ferndale Enterprise (from 1904)
- Semi-Weekly Ferndale Enterprise (from 1896)
- Semi-Weekly Ferndale Exchange (from 189?)
- The Valley Oracle (from 189?)
- The Weekly Report (from 189?)
- Published In Eureka ...
- We know of 50 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Eureka. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Eureka
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Alton. This extended list includes all the papers from Eureka. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Alton
- Published In Arcata ...
- The Arcata Eye (from 1996)
- The Arcata Leader (from 1879)
- The Arcata Union (from 1886)
- The Arcata Union (from 1905)
- The Humboldt Independent News (from 1973)
- The Semi-Weekly Arcata Union (from 1903)
- The Union (from 1972)
- Published In Blue Lake ...
- Blue Lake Advocate (from 1889)
- Northern Advocate (from 1978)
- Northern Advocate (from 1979)
- The Little Northern Advocate (from 1978)
- The Northern Advocate (from 1888)
- Published In McKinleyville ...
- Mad River Herald (from 1990)
- McKinleyville Express (from 1985)
- McKinleyville Journal (from 1971)
- McKinleyville News (from 1962)
- McKinleyville Press (from 1996)
- McKinleyville Weekly (from 1994)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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: 40.5485, Longitude: -124.1407 |