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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Golconda 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 Golconda. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Golconda. Our list contains 48 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Golconda.

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 Golconda.  

Newspapers Neighboring Golconda ...

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

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

  • Published In Mancos  ...
  • Published In Fort Lewis [La Plata County] ...
    • The Outlook (from 1895)
      • The first year of publication was in 1895, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Outlook
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91052537
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23667304
  • Published In Rico [Dolores County] ...
    • Rico News-Record (from 1886)
    • Rico Record (from 1883)
    • The Rico Clipper (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 Rico Clipper
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90051160
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21254400
    • The Rico Democrat (from 1891)
    • The Rico Item (from 19??)
    • The Rico News-Sun (from 1896)
    • The Rico News (from 18??)
    • The Rico News (from 1901)
    • The Rico Sun (from 1891)
    • The Rico Weekly Sun (from 1891)
    • The Rico-Dove Creek News (from 1933)
  • Published In Dolores  ...
    • The Dolores Star (from 1901)
    • The Silver Star (from 1897)
  • Published In Durango [La Plata County] ...
    • We know of 40 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Durango. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Durango
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Golconda. This extended list includes all the papers from Durango. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Golconda
  • Published In Cortez  ...

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 from Point A (ie- Golconda) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Golconda. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4575, Longitude: -108.1523       In this case, the coordinates for Golconda have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).