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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ralston 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 Ralston. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ralston. Our list contains 57 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Ralston.

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 Ralston.  

Newspapers Neighboring Ralston ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of Ralston.

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

  • Published In Georgetown [El Dorado County] ...
  • Published In Iowa Hill  ...
    • Weekly Patriot (from 1859)
      • The first year of publication was in 1859, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Weekly Patriot
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93053176
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 27903764
  • Published In Colfax  ...
  • Published In Dutch Flat  ...
  • Published In Pollock Pines [El Dorado County] ...
  • Published In Coloma [El Dorado County] ...
  • Published In Lotus [El Dorado County] ...
    • Lotus Press (from 1882)
      • The first year of publication was in 1882, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Lotus Press
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95062700
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33253187
  • Published In Placerville [El Dorado County] ...
    • We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Placerville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Placerville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Ralston. This extended list includes all the papers from Placerville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Ralston
  • Published In Auburn  ...
  • Published In Diamond Springs [El Dorado County] ...

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- Ralston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ralston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0049, Longitude: -120.6760       In this case, the coordinates for Ralston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).