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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Alvin 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 Alvin. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Alvin. Our list contains 168 papers that were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of Alvin.

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 Alvin.  

Newspapers Neighboring Alvin ...

The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km] of Alvin.

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

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- Alvin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alvin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3097, Longitude: -87.6062