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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Billett 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 Billett. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Billett. Our list contains 120 papers that were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<1> of Billett.

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 Billett.  

Newspapers Neighboring Billett ...

The following newspapers were published within 25 miles [40.2 km] of Billett.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Billett) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Billett. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6646, Longitude: -87.6515       In this case, the coordinates for Billett have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).