Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Clayton.
Our newspaper information for Clayton 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 3 papers that were published in the immediate area of Clayton. In addition, the list contains another 59 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Clayton. In total, we've identified 62 papers within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Clayton.
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 Clayton.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.
Newspapers Published In Clayton ...
We know of 3 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Clayton:
- The Clayton Enterprise (from 1879)
- The Clayton Standard (from 1865)
- The Daily Clayton Enterprise (from 1882)
Newspapers Neighboring Clayton ...
The following newspapers were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Clayton.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Clayton.
- Published In Golden ...
- The Golden New Era (from 1892)
- Published In Coatsburg ...
- Community Enterprise (from 1915)
- Published In Mount Sterling [Brown County] ...
- Brown County Democrat (from 1871)
- Brown County Republican (from 1890)
- Illinois Weekly Message (from 1872)
- Mount Sterling Examiner (from 1888)
- Mount Sterling Union (from 1857)
- Mt. Sterling Chronotype (from 185?)
- Mt. Sterling Democrat (from 1851)
- Prairie Democrat (from 1850)
- The Brown County Democrat-Message (from 1990)
- The Brown County Gazette (from 1881)
- The Democrat-Message (from 1886)
- The Examiner (from 189?)
- The first year of publication was in 189?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Examiner
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92054560
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25693230
- The Mount Sterling Record (from 1863)
- The Mt. Sterling Examiner
- The Prairie Pioneer (from 1847)
- The Western Spy (from 1855)
- The first year of publication was in 1855, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Western Spy
- Holdings for: LCCN SN91054774
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 24821705
- Weekly Gazette (from 1869)
- Published In Augusta [Hancock County] ...
- Augusta Herald (from 1878)
- Augusta Times (from 1856)
- The first year of publication was in 1856, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Augusta Times
- Holdings for: LCCN SN2005062005
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 57482992
- Augusta Weekly Banner (from 1866)
- Eagle-scribe (from 2000)
- The Augusta Eagle (from 188?)
- The Augusta Weekly Times (from 1856)
- Published In Bowen [Hancock County] ...
- The Bowen Chronicle (from 18??)
- The Bowen Chronicle (from 1900)
- The Bowen Spectator (from 1973)
- The Bowen Weekly Chronicle (from 1897)
- Published In Fowler ...
- The Fowler Record (from 19??)
- Published In Plymouth [Hancock County] ...
- Plymouth Locomotive (from 1857)
- Plymouth Phonograph (from 1879)
- The News Boy (from 1861)
- Tri-County Scribe (from 1896)
- Published In Versailles [Brown County] ...
- The Versailles Independent (from 1930)
- The Versailles Sentinel
- The Versailles Weekly Independent (from 1879)
- Versailles Enterprise (from 1884)
- Versailles Graphic (from 18??)
- Published In Baylis [Pike County] ...
- The Baylis Budget (from 1890)
- The Baylis Guide
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1974
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Baylis Guide
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93055998
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 28834822
- Published In Perry [Pike County] ...
- The Perry Citizen (from 1903)
- Published In Payson ...
- Payson Adams County News And Central Recorder (from 1879)
- The County News (from 1875)
- The Payson Times (from 1896)
- Published In Rushville [Schuyler County] ...
- Illinois Republican (from 1839)
- Prairie Telegraph (from 1848)
- Rushville Journal And Military Tract Advertiser (from 1835)
- Rushville Journal (from 1836)
- Rushville Phoenix (from 1838)
- Rushville Times (from 186?)
- Rushville Weekly Times (from 186?)
- Rushville Whig (from 1843)
- The first year of publication was in 1843, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Rushville Whig
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87082354
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 15303335
- Schuyler Advocate (from 1837)
- The Mite Record (from 1868)
- The first year of publication was in 1868, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Mite Record
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92054530
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 25563907
- The Political Examiner (from 1840)
- The Rushville Times And Schuyler County Herald (from 1926)
- The Rushville Times (from 1928)
- The Rushville Times (from 1868)
- The Rushville Times (from 1856)
- The Schuyler Citizen (from 1856)
- The Schuyler News (from 1933)
- The Test (from 1838)
- Weekly Rushville Times (from 18??)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Published In Barry [Pike County] ...
- Barry Adage (from 1871)
- Barry Breeze (from 1894)
- Barry Weekly Adage (from 1878)
- Barry-West Pike News (from 1966)
- The Barry Adage (from 1919)
- The Barry Record (from 1905)
- The Paper (from 1985)
- Western Express (from 1991)
- Published In Quincy ...
- We know of 84 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Quincy. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Quincy
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Clayton. This extended list includes all the papers from Quincy. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Clayton.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
- Published In Griggsville [Pike County] ...
- Pike County Union (from 1855)
- The Griggsville Independent (from 1869)
- The Griggsville Reflector (from 1871)
- The Independent Press (from 18??)
- Published In Hull [Pike County] ...
- The Hull Enterprise (from 19??)
- The Hull Enterprise (from 19??)
- The West Pike News (from 1946)
- Published In Meredosia [Morgan County] ...
- The Meredosia Budget (from 1905)
- The Meredosia News (from 1890)
- Published In Naples [Scott County] ...
- Naples Illinois Observer (from 1849)
- Published In Beardstown [Cass County] ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Beardstown. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Beardstown
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Clayton. This extended list includes all the papers from Beardstown. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Clayton.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
- Published In Industry [McDonough County] ...
- Industry Weekly Press
- The Industry Press (from 1916)
- Published In Carthage [Hancock County] ...
- Carthage Democrat
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 19??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Carthage Democrat
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93055551
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27818557
- Carthage Republican (from 1854)
- Carthage Village Voice (from 1975)
- Hancock County Democrat (from 1866)
- Hancock County Journal And The Carthage Republican (from 1953)
- Hancock County Journal (from 1886)
- The Carthage Gazette (from 1929)
- The Carthage Gazette (from 1865)
- The Carthage Transcript (from 1860)
- The Children's Memorial Home Bulletin (from 1925)
- The Citizen (from 18??)
- The Daily Booster (from 1915)
- The Evening Republican (from 1877)
- The Gazette-News (from 1928)
- Published In Colchester [McDonough County] ...
- Chronicle (from 2000)
- Colchester Daily Independent (from 1912)
- Colchester Independent (from 1880)
- The Colchester Chronicle (from 1951)
- The Colchester Chronicle (from 1975)
- Published In New Canton [Pike County] ...
- The New Canton Press (from 190?)
- The Press (from 1950)
- Published In La Grange [Lewis County] ...
- La Grange National American (from 1857)
- The La Grange Democrat (from 1872)
- The LaGrange Indicator (from 1914)
- The Weekly Indicator (from 1893)
- Published In Bluffs [Scott County] ...
- Bluffs Weekly Times (from 189?)
- Kampsville Century (from 1974)
- Scott County Herald (from 1890)
- The Bluffs Times (from 1935)
- The Chapin News (from 192?)
- The Tri-County Times (from 2001)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Clayton. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Adams County: www.co.adams.il.us/
The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Clayton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clayton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0302, Longitude: -90.9581 In this case, the coordinates for Clayton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |