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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Oak Forest 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 Oak Forest. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oak Forest. Our list contains 63 papers that were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Oak Forest.

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 Oak Forest.  

Newspapers Neighboring Oak Forest ...

The following newspapers were published within 20 miles [32.2 km] of Oak Forest.

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

  • Published In Brookville  ...
    • We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Brookville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Brookville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Oak Forest. This extended list includes all the papers from Brookville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oak Forest
  • Published In Oldenburg  ...
    • Democratic Herald (from 1910)
  • Published In Batesville [Ripley County] ...
  • Published In Laurel  ...
  • Published In Sunman [Ripley County] ...
    • Sunman Sun (from 1988)
      • Years of publication:  1988 to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sunman Sun
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88023968
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18370909
    • Tri-County Greeting (from 1901)
  • Published In Reily [Butler County] ...
  • Published In Connersville [Fayette County] ...
    • We know of 41 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Connersville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Connersville
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of Oak Forest. This extended list includes all the papers from Connersville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oak Forest
  • Published In Milan [Ripley County] ...
  • Published In Brownsville [Union County] ...
    • The Brownsville Banner (from 189?)
    • The Brownsville Item (from 1902)
    • The Flying Roll (from 1825)
  • Published In Liberty [Union County] ...
  • Published In Osgood [Ripley County] ...

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- Oak Forest) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3833, Longitude: -85.0856       In this case, the coordinates for Oak Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).