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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Lawton 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 Lawton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Lawton. Our list contains 153 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Lawton.

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 Lawton.  

Newspapers Neighboring Lawton ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Lawton.

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

  • Published In Moville  ...
    • The Moville Mail (from 1887)
  • Published In Sergeant Bluff  ...
  • Published In Hinton [Plymouth County] ...
  • Published In Sioux City  ...
    • We know of 54 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Sioux City. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Sioux City
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Lawton. This extended list includes all the papers from Sioux City. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Lawton
  • Published In Covington [Dakota County] ...
  • Published In South Sioux City [Dakota County] ...
  • Published In Dakota City [Dakota County] ...
  • Published In Kingsley [Plymouth County] ...
  • Published In North Sioux City [Union County] ...
  • Published In Anthon  ...
    • The Anthon Herald (from 1901)
  • Published In Homer [Dakota County] ...
    • Homer Herald (from 1897)
      • The first year of publication was in 1897, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Homer Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95073340
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33852195
    • The Homer Free Press (from 1906)
    • The Homer Patriot (from 1895)
    • The Homer Star (from 1910)
  • Published In Jackson [Dakota County] ...
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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 from Point A (ie- Lawton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lawton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4786, Longitude: -96.1837       In this case, the coordinates for Lawton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).