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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Middle Creek 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 Middle Creek. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Middle Creek. Our list contains 119 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Middle Creek.

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 Middle Creek.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Middle Creek ...

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

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

  • Published In Carthage  ...
  • Published In Fountain Green  ...
  • Published In Plymouth  ...
    • Plymouth Locomotive (from 1857)
    • Plymouth Phonograph (from 1879)
    • The News Boy (from 1861)
    • Tri-County Scribe (from 1896)
  • Published In Bowen  ...
  • Published In Augusta  ...
    • 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 Colchester [McDonough County] ...
  • Published In La Harpe  ...
    • Hancock Democrat (from 1853)
    • La Harpe Amateur (from 1883)
      • The first year of publication was in 1883, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the La Harpe Amateur
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94051283
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 31160315
    • La Harpe Times (from 1904)
      • The first year of publication was in 1904, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the La Harpe Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN 2013219108
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 55001386
    • The Hancock County Quill (from 1973)
    • The La Harpe Leader (from 1874)
    • The La Harper (from 1875)
    • The Quill (from 1892)
  • Published In Blandinsville [McDonough County] ...
  • Published In Hamilton  ...
  • Published In Golden [Adams County] ...
  • Published In Keokuk [Lee County] ...
    • We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Keokuk. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Keokuk
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Middle Creek. This extended list includes all the papers from Keokuk. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Middle Creek.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Dallas City  ...
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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Middle Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Middle Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3728, Longitude: -91.0274       In this case, the coordinates for Middle Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).