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Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Point Ferry.

Our newspaper information for West Point Ferry 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 West Point Ferry. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Point Ferry. Our list contains 61 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of West Point Ferry.

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 West Point Ferry.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Point Ferry ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of West Point Ferry.

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

  • Published In Hardin  ...
    • Calhoun County Democrat (from 1871)
    • Calhoun County Republican (from 190?)
    • Calhoun County Union (from 1861)
    • Calhoun Herald (from 1873)
    • Calhoun Herald (from 190?)
    • Calhoun News-Herald (from 1997)
    • Calhoun Times-Herald (from 1902)
    • The Calhoun News (from 1915)
    • The Leader (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 Leader
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93055747
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 28395983
    • The Republican (from 1901)
  • Published In O'Fallon [Saint Charles County] ...
  • Published In Grafton [Jersey County] ...
    • Grafton Reporter (from 1849)
      • The first year of publication was in 1849, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Grafton Reporter
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054559
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23198979
    • The Backwoodsman (from 1837)
    • The Grafton Phoenix (from 1842)
  • Published In Elsberry [Lincoln County] ...
    • Elsberry Democrat (from 1900)
  • Published In Lake Saint Louis [Saint Charles County] ...
  • Published In Troy [Lincoln County] ...
  • Published In Saint Charles [Saint Charles County] ...
    • We know of 37 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Saint Charles. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Saint Charles
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of West Point Ferry. This extended list includes all the papers from Saint Charles. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Point Ferry
  • Published In Jerseyville [Jersey County] ...
  • Published In Wright City [Warren County] ...
    • Tri-County News (from 1936)
    • Wright City News (from 1904)
  • Published In Kane [Greene County] ...
    • Kane Express (from 1873)
      • The first year of publication was in 1873, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Kane Express
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054792
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 25065223
    • The Kane Times (from 1874)
      • The first year of publication was in 1874, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Kane Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054788
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24840733
  • Published In Silex [Lincoln County] ...
    • The Silex Index (from 1893)

The official website for Chronicling America

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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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Point Ferry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Point Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9967, Longitude: -90.6798       In this case, the coordinates for West Point Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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