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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Hanson 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 Hanson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Hanson. Our list contains 154 papers that were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Hanson.

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 Hanson.  

Newspapers Neighboring Hanson ...

The following newspapers were published within 29 miles [46.7 km] of Hanson.

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

  • Published In Oconee  ...
    • The Enterprise (from 1884)
      • The first year of publication was in 1884, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Enterprise
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054817
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22569978
  • Published In Ramsey [Fayette County] ...
  • Published In Herrick  ...
  • Published In Bingham [Fayette County] ...
    • The Bingham Agriculturist (from 1888)
  • Published In Nokomis [Montgomery County] ...
  • Published In Pana [Christian County] ...
  • Published In Cowden  ...
  • Published In Tower Hill  ...
  • Published In Irving [Montgomery County] ...
    • The Irving Gazette (from 1872)
    • The Irving Times
      • 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 Irving Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054571
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23304315
  • Published In Vandalia [Fayette County] ...
    • We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Vandalia. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Vandalia
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of Hanson. This extended list includes all the papers from Vandalia. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Hanson
  • Published In Coffeen [Montgomery County] ...
    • The Montgomery Democrat
  • Published In Hillsboro [Montgomery County] ...
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hanson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hanson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2173, Longitude: -89.1109       In this case, the coordinates for Hanson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).