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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Cropsey 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 Cropsey. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Cropsey. Our list contains 123 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Cropsey.

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 Cropsey.  

Newspapers Neighboring Cropsey ...

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

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

  • Published In Sibley [Ford County] ...
  • Published In Colfax  ...
  • Published In Fairbury [Livingston County] ...
    • Fairbury Journal (from 1866)
    • Fairbury Weekly Independent (from 1876)
    • Livingston Citizen (from 19??)
    • Livingston County Blade (from 187?)
    • The Blade (from 1990)
      • Years of publication:  1990 to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Blade
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93055961
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 28716916
    • The Blade (from 1884)
    • The Blade (from 1900)
    • The Blade (from 190?)
    • The Blade (from 1915)
    • The Daily Blade (from 1884)
    • The Daily Blade (from 1903)
    • The Daily Blade (from 1909)
    • The Daily Independent-Blade (from 1882)
    • The Daily Local Record
    • The Fair-dealer (from 1893)
      • The first year of publication was in 1893, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Fair-dealer
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054822
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22607781
    • The Fairbury Blade (from 1922)
    • The Fairbury Independent (from 1871)
    • The Independent-Blade (from 1877)
    • The Local Record
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1947
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Local Record
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054128
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22722355
  • Published In Forrest [Livingston County] ...
  • Published In Gibson City [Ford County] ...
  • Published In Melvin [Ford County] ...
    • Melvin Transcript (from 189?)
    • The Melvin Motor (from 1908)
  • Published In Arrowsmith  ...
  • Published In Chatsworth [Livingston County] ...
  • Published In Cooksville  ...
    • The Weekly Advocate (from 189?)
  • Published In Chenoa  ...
  • Published In Roberts [Ford County] ...
    • The Roberts Herald
  • Published In Ellsworth  ...
  • Continue List   (28 more) ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cropsey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cropsey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6088, Longitude: -88.4799