Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Columbus.
Our newspaper information for Columbus 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 Columbus. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Columbus. Our list contains 87 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Columbus.
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 Columbus.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.
Newspapers Neighboring Columbus ...
The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Columbus.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Columbus.
- Published In Coatsburg ...
- Community Enterprise (from 1915)
- Published In Fowler ...
- The Fowler Record (from 19??)
- Published In Clayton ...
- The Clayton Enterprise (from 1879)
- The Clayton Standard (from 1865)
- The Daily Clayton Enterprise (from 1882)
- Published In Golden ...
- The Golden New Era (from 1892)
- Published In Payson ...
- Payson Adams County News And Central Recorder (from 1879)
- The County News (from 1875)
- The Payson Times (from 1896)
- 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 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Columbus. 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 Columbus.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
- 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 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 Hull [Pike County] ...
- The Hull Enterprise (from 19??)
- The Hull Enterprise (from 19??)
- The West Pike News (from 1946)
- 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 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 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)
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- 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 Canton [Lewis County] ...
- Canton Weekly Press (from 1862)
- Lewis County Gazette (from 1869)
- Mississippi Sawyer (from 1920)
- Missouri Plebeian (from 1848)
- North-east Reporter (from 1849)
- The Canton News (from 1880)
- The Canton Press-News And The Canton Record (from 1941)
- The Canton Press-News And The Lewis County Journal (from 1973)
- The Canton Press-News (from 1928)
- The Canton Press (from 1864)
- The Canton Record (from 1929)
- The Cantonian (from 1916)
- Published In Hannibal [Marion County] ...
- We know of 62 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Hannibal. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Hannibal
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Columbus. This extended list includes all the papers from Hannibal. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Columbus.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
- Published In New Canton [Pike County] ...
- The New Canton Press (from 190?)
- The Press (from 1950)
- 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 Palmyra [Marion County] ...
- Marion County Democrat (from 1872)
- Marion County Herald (from 1883)
- Marion Journal (from 1836)
- Missouri Whig And General Advertiser (from 1839)
- Palmyra Courier (from 1859)
- Palmyra Spectator (from 1863)
- Palmyra Weekly Whig (from 1856)
- The Marion County Standard (from 1933)
- The Missouri Whig (from 1841)
- The Palmyra Spectator And Marion County Standard (from 1941)
- The Palmyra Spectator (from 1955)
- The Southern Sentinel (from 1856)
- Published In Perry [Pike County] ...
- The Perry Citizen (from 1903)
- 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 Durham [Lewis County] ...
- Mississippi Sawyer (from 1897)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Columbus. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Columbus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Columbus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9881, Longitude: -91.1452 In this case, the coordinates for Columbus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |