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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Deadwood 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 Deadwood. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Deadwood. Our list contains 18 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Deadwood.

Newspapers Neighboring Deadwood ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Deadwood.

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

  • Published In La Porte [Plumas County] ...
    • La Porte Union (from 1868)
  • Published In Downieville  ...
  • Published In Sierra City  ...
    • Sierra Tribune (from 188?)
      • The first year of publication was in 188?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sierra Tribune
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93051068
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 28405489
  • Published In Portola [Plumas County] ...
    • Portola Gazette (from 191?)
    • Portola Reporter (from 1927)
    • Portola Sentinel (from 1916)
  • Published In Forbestown [Butte County] ...
    • Mining New Era (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 Mining New Era
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95061830
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32684333

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Deadwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Deadwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6771, Longitude: -120.8533       In this case, the coordinates for Deadwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).