Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wilmington.
Our newspaper information for Wilmington 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 3 papers that were published in the immediate area of Wilmington. In addition, the list contains another 45 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Wilmington. In total, we've identified 48 papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Wilmington.
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 Wilmington.
Newspapers Published In Wilmington ...
We know of 3 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Wilmington:
- Dearborn County Register (from 1841)
- Democratic Register (from 1842)
- The Hoosier State (from 1854)
Newspapers Neighboring Wilmington ...
The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Wilmington.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Wilmington.
- Published In Aurora ...
- Aurora Journal-Bulletin (from 1952)
- Aurora Spectator (from 1880)
- Blue Jeans (from 1876)
- Dearborn County Democrat, And Aurora And Wilmington Advertiser (from 1839)
- Dearborn County Democrat (from 1840)
- Dearborn Democrat (from 1838)
- Dearborn Independent (from 1868)
- Farmer And Mechanic (from 1873)
- Indiana Signal (from 1836)
- The Aurora Bulletin (from 190?)
- The Aurora Commercial (from 1859)
- The Aurora Journal (from 1929)
- The Aurora News (from 1873)
- The Aurora Standard (from 1851)
- The Aurora Weekly Standard (from 1852)
- The Independent Banner (from 1852)
- The Peoples Advocate (from 1868)
- The Republican Leader (from 1876)
- The Saturday Bulletin (from 1894)
- The Weekly Oracle (from 1901)
- Western Commercial (from 1848)
- Published In Lawrenceburg ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lawrenceburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lawrenceburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Wilmington. This extended list includes all the papers from Lawrenceburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wilmington
- Published In Dillsboro ...
- The Dillsboro News (from 1906)
- Weekly Advocate (from 1892)
- Published In Rising Sun [Ohio County] ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rising Sun. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Rising Sun
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Wilmington. This extended list includes all the papers from Rising Sun. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wilmington
- Published In Milan [Ripley County] ...
- The Milan Commercial (from 191?)
- The Milan Times (from 1899)
- Published In Burlington [Boone County] ...
- The Boone County Recorder (from 1875)
- Published In Cleves [Hamilton County] ...
- The Valley Journal (from 1947)
- Published In Sunman [Ripley County] ...
- Sunman Sun (from 1988)
- Tri-County Greeting (from 1901)
- Published In Versailles [Ripley County] ...
- The Forest Rose (from 1853)
- The Republican (from 1889)
- The Ripley County Democrat (from 1863)
- The Ripley Index (from 1873)
- The Versailles Dispatch (from 1858)
- The Versailles Republican (from 1893)
- Versailles Gazette (from 1869)
- Versailles Republican (from 1881)
- Published In Florence [Boone County] ...
- The Florence News (from 1958)
- The Leader Of Boone County (from 1977)
- The Leader (from 1976)
- The Northern Kentucky News (from 1954)
- Published In Erlanger [Kenton County] ...
- The Erlanger News (from 19??)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Wilmington. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Dearborn County: www.dearborncounty.org/
The official website for State of Indiana: https://www.in.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 from Point A (ie- Wilmington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wilmington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0626, Longitude: -84.9466 In this case, the coordinates for Wilmington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |