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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ramsey 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 4 papers that were published in the immediate area of Ramsey. In addition, the list contains another 213 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Ramsey. In total, we've identified 217 papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Ramsey.

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 Ramsey.  

Newspapers Published In Ramsey ...

We know of 4 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Ramsey:

Newspapers Neighboring Ramsey ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Ramsey.

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

  • Published In Bingham  ...
    • The Bingham Agriculturist (from 1888)
  • Published In Herrick [Shelby County] ...
  • Published In Oconee [Shelby County] ...
    • 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 Vandalia  ...
    • 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 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Ramsey. 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 Ramsey
  • Published In Nokomis [Montgomery County] ...
  • Published In Coffeen [Montgomery County] ...
    • The Montgomery Democrat
  • Published In Cowden [Shelby County] ...
  • 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 Pana [Christian County] ...
  • Published In Saint Elmo  ...
  • Published In Mulberry Grove [Bond County] ...
    • The Mulberry Grove News (from 1880)
  • Published In Tower Hill [Shelby County] ...
  • Continue List   (18 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ramsey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ramsey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1442, Longitude: -89.1083