Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Brighton.
Our newspaper information for Brighton 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 11 papers that were published in the immediate area of Brighton. In addition, the list contains another 109 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Brighton. In total, we've identified 120 papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Brighton.
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 Brighton.
Newspapers Published In Brighton ...
We know of 11 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Brighton:
- Brighton Enterprise (from 1882)
- Brighton Register (from 1871)
- Daily Comet (from 1886)
- The first year of publication was in 1886, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Daily Comet
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87058260
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15803125
- Greenback World (from 1879)
- The Brighton News (from 189?)
- The Brighton Pioneer And Home Visitor (from 1868)
- The Brighton Record (from 1912)
- The Brighton Reporter (from 1880)
- The Brighton Star (from 1874)
- The Weekly News (from 1883)
- The Western Star (from 1873)
Newspapers Neighboring Brighton ...
The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Brighton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Brighton.
- Published In Pleasant Plain [Jefferson County] ...
- The Pleasant Plain News (from 1879)
- Published In Wayland [Henry County] ...
- The Wayland News (from 1892)
- Published In Richland [Keokuk County] ...
- The Richland Clarion And Pekin Community News (from 1973)
- The Richland Clarion (from 1881)
- The Richland Plainsman (from 1975)
- Published In Washington ...
- Evening Journal (from 1894)
- The Iowa Granger (from 1873)
- The Tattler (from 1877)
- The first year of publication was in 1877, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Tattler
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87058267
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15803469
- The Tri-Weekly (from 1879)
- The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Tri-Weekly
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87058266
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15803443
- The Washington Argus (from 1854)
- The Washington Democrat (from 1860)
- The Washington Democrat (from 1878)
- The Washington Evening Journal (from 1948)
- The Washington Press (from 1856)
- The Weekly Washington Press (from 1865)
- Washington County Press (from 1867)
- Washington County Press (from 1906)
- Washington Democrat-Independent (from 1927)
- Washington Gazette (from 1868)
- Washington Press (from 1889)
- Published In West Chester ...
- The Sun (from 1879)
- The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88059237
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 18692243
- Published In Lockridge [Jefferson County] ...
- The Lockridge Herald (from 1906)
- The Lockridge Times (from 1916)
- Published In Fairfield [Jefferson County] ...
- Evening Journal (from 1880)
- Fairfield Daily Journal (from 1919)
- Fairfield Daily Ledger And Journal And Tribune (from 1923)
- Fairfield Daily Ledger (from 1923)
- Fairfield Journal (from 1904)
- Fairfield Ledger (from 1851)
- Fairfield Ledger (from 1966)
- Fairfield Weekly Ledger (from 1849)
- Iowa Democrat (from 1874)
- Iowa Sentinel (from 1847)
- The Daily Journal (from 1919)
- The Daily Journal (from 1892)
- The Daily Ledger-Journal (from 1921)
- The Fairfield Daily Journal (from 1892)
- The Fairfield Daily Journal (from 1883)
- The Fairfield Journal (from 1916)
- The Fairfield Journal (from 1880)
- The Fairfield Tribune (from 1878)
- The Fairfield Weekly Journal (from 188?)
- The Home Visitor (from 1865)
- The Industrial Era (from 1874)
- The Iowa Democrat (from 1866)
- The Weekly Iowa Democrat (from 18??)
- The Weekly Ledger-Journal (from 1921)
- Published In Crawfordsville ...
- Crawfordsville Imprint (from 1894)
- Published In Keota [Keokuk County] ...
- Keota Eagle (from 1875)
- The Keota Alta (from 1889)
- Published In Ainsworth ...
- Ainsworth Clipper (from 1883)
- The Ainsworth Parrot (from 1923)
- The Ainsworthian (from 1920)
- The Sun (from 1879)
- The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88059238
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 18692855
- Published In Mount Pleasant [Henry County] ...
- We know of 28 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Mount Pleasant
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Brighton. This extended list includes all the papers from Mount Pleasant. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Brighton
- Published In Wellman ...
- The Wellman Advance (from 1889)
- Continue List (24 more) ...
- Published In Winfield [Henry County] ...
- The Transcript (from 1882)
- Winfield Courier (from 1876)
- Published In Batavia [Jefferson County] ...
- The Batavia Beacon (from 1953)
- Published In Birmingham [Van Buren County] ...
- Birmingham Enterprise (from 1869)
- Birmingham Free Press (from 1885)
- Published In Stockport [Van Buren County] ...
- The Stockport News (from 1901)
- Published In Kalona ...
- The Kalona News (from 1891)
- Published In Martinsburg [Keokuk County] ...
- Martinsburg Journal (from 1885)
- Published In Sigourney [Keokuk County] ...
- Iowa Weekly Democrat (from 1859)
- Life In The West (from 1856)
- Sigourney Courier (from 1878)
- Sigourney Review (from 1872)
- The Iowa Democrat (from 1860)
- The Keokuk County News (from 1860)
- The Keokuk County News (from 1897)
- The News-Review (from 1975)
- The News (from 1863)
- The News (from 1880)
- The Sigourney News-Review (from 1960)
- The Sigourney News (from 18??)
- The Sigourney Weekly News (from 186?)
- Published In Columbus City [Louisa County] ...
- Columbus City Enterprise (from 1859)
- Columbus Nonpareil (from 1876)
- Louisa County Safeguard (from 1870)
- The Nonpareil (from 1875)
- Published In South English [Keokuk County] ...
- South English Herald (from 1935)
- The Advance (from 1872)
- The South English Herald (from 1882)
- Published In Columbus Junction [Louisa County] ...
- Columbus Junction Herald (from 1875)
- Columbus Safeguard (from 1874)
- Columbus Safeguard
- Columbus Semi-Weekly Safeguard (from 1889)
- Columbus Weekly Safeguard (from 189?)
- Louisa County Times (from 1884)
- The Columbus Gazette And Columbus Safeguard (from 1924)
- The Columbus Gazette (from 1962)
- The Columbus Gazette (from 1887)
- The Iowa People (from 1874)
- The Iowa Union Farmer (from 19??)
- Published In Riverside ...
- Riverside Current (from 1978)
- Riverside News (from 1875)
- The Riverside Leader (from 1883)
- The Riverside News (from 1881)
- Published In Salem [Henry County] ...
- Salem News (from 1920)
- Salem Register (from 1872)
- Salem Weekly News (from 1921)
- Salem Weekly News (from 1880)
- The Salem Excelsior (from 1867)
- The Salem News (from 1949)
- Published In Hedrick [Keokuk County] ...
- Hedrick Journal (from 1889)
- The Hedrick Saturday Herald (from 1902)
- Published In Eldon [Wapello County] ...
- Beacon-forum (from 1981)
- Eldon Forum
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1914
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Eldon Forum
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86061206
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 14948815
- Eldon Forum (from 1921)
- Star News (from 1941)
- The Eldon Bee (from 1880)
- The first year of publication was in 1880, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Eldon Bee
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86061220
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 14958380
- The Eldon Forum And Register (from 1914)
- The Weekly Forum (from 1893)
- Western News (from 1876)
- Published In New London [Henry County] ...
- The New London Journal (from 1915)
- Published In North English [Iowa County] ...
- North English Record (from 1887)
- Published In Selma [Van Buren County] ...
- The Selma Star (from 18??)
- Published In Yarmouth [Des Moines County] ...
- The Yarmouth Letter (from 1894)
- Published In Delta [Keokuk County] ...
- The Delta Independent (from 1879)
- The Delta Press (from 1904)
- Published In Keswick [Keokuk County] ...
- The Keswick Leader (from 1911)
- The Keswick News (from 1897)
- Published In Lone Tree [Johnson County] ...
- Lone Tree Reporter (from 1895)
- Lone Tree Reporter (from 1981)
- Lone Tree Sentinel (from 1875)
- The Lone Tree Branch (from 1892)
- The Reporter (from 1976)
- Published In Parnell [Iowa County] ...
- Iowa County Advertiser (from 1898)
- Published In Hills [Johnson County] ...
- The Hills Echo (from 1905)
- Published In Morning Sun [Louisa County] ...
- Morning Sun Herald (from 1882)
- Morning Sun Reporter (from 1874)
- Morning Sun Sentinel (from 1879)
- News-Herald (from 1897)
- The Morning Sun News (from 1887)
- The Morning Sun News (from 1873)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
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The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brighton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brighton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1740, Longitude: -91.8200 |