Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Great Bend.
Our newspaper information for Great Bend 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 37 papers that were published in the immediate area of Great Bend. In addition, the list contains another 105 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Great Bend. In total, we've identified 142 papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Great Bend.
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 Great Bend.
Newspapers Published In Great Bend ...
We know of 37 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Great Bend:
- Barton Beacon (from 1892)
- Barton County Beacon (from 1890)
- Barton County Democrat (from 1915)
- Barton County Democrat (from 1885)
- Barton County Democrat (from 1885)
- Evening Star (from 1893)
- Great Bend Beacon (from 1901)
- Great Bend Daily Graphic (from 1887)
- Great Bend Daily Rustler (from 1908)
- Great Bend Graphic (from 1956)
- Great Bend Herald-Press (from 1953)
- Great Bend Rustler (from 1904)
- Continue List (25 more) ...
- Great Bend Tribune (from 1887)
- Great Bend Tribune (from 1972)
- Inland Tribune (from 1876)
- Kansas Volksfreund (from 1878)
- The Arkansas Valley (from 1872)
- The Barton County Democrat The Great Bend Tribune (from 1918)
- The Barton County Times (from 1883)
- The Daily Barton County Democrat (from 1915)
- The Daily Graphic (from 1887)
- The Daily Item (from 1900)
- The Evening News (from 1888)
- The Great Bend Daily Item (from 1908)
- The Great Bend Daily Tribune (from 1908)
- The Great Bend Daily Tribune (from 1950)
- The Great Bend Herald (from 1937)
- The Great Bend Item-Rustler (from 1908)
- The Great Bend Morning News (from 1910)
- The Great Bend Press (from 1949)
- The Great Bend Register And The Great Bend Tribune (from 1908)
- The Great Bend Register (from 1874)
- The Great Bend Tribune (from 1909)
- The Great Bend Tribune (from 1911)
- The Great Bend Tribune (from 1925)
- The New West (from 1878)
- Western Kansas Press (from 1962)
Newspapers Neighboring Great Bend ...
The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Great Bend.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Great Bend.
- Published In Hoisington ...
- Hoisington Community News (from 1924)
- Mid-Kan Ruralist (from 1978)
- The Echo (from 1888)
- The Hoisington Blade (from 1892)
- The Hoisington Dispatch (from 1889)
- The Hoisington Echo (from 1888)
- The Hoisington Echo (from 1887)
- The Hoisington Mascot (from 1888)
- The Morning Mascot (from 1888)
- Tri County News (from 1981)
- Published In Pawnee Rock ...
- Pawnee Rock Herald (from 1904)
- Pawnee Rock Leader (from 1886)
- The Alliance Globe (from 1891)
- The Crank (from 1888)
- The Pawnee Chieftain (from 1898)
- The Pawnee Rock Herald And The Albert News (from 1933)
- Published In Albert ...
- The Albert News (from 1926)
- Published In Claflin ...
- Barton Banner (from 1897)
- Barton County Banner (from 1890)
- Claflin Clarion (from 1899)
- Claflin Gazette (from 1888)
- The Claflin Banner (from 1898)
- The Claflin Leader (from 1894)
- Published In Raymond [Rice County] ...
- The Raymond Advance (from 1885)
- The Raymond Independent (from 1887)
- Published In Galatia ...
- Galatia Booster (from 1924)
- The Galatia Register (from 1917)
- Published In Larned [Pawnee County] ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Larned. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Larned
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Great Bend. This extended list includes all the papers from Larned. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Great Bend
- Published In Bushton [Rice County] ...
- The Bushton Star (from 1894)
- Published In Chase [Rice County] ...
- Chase Breeze (from 1902)
- The Chase Dispatch (from 1884)
- The Chase Index (from 1946)
- The Chase News (from 1896)
- The Chase Record (from 1887)
- The Chase Register (from 1903)
- The Weekly Record (from 1886)
- Published In Holyrood [Ellsworth County] ...
- Hollyrood Sun (from 1894)
- Holyrood Bushton News/Gazette (from 1977)
- The Holyrood Banner (from 1900)
- The Holyrood Gazette And The Bushton News (from 1976)
- The Holyrood Gazette (from 1919)
- The Sentinel (from 1891)
- Published In Saint John [Stafford County] ...
- County Capital (from 1887)
- St. John Daily Capital And The County Capital (from 1935)
- St. John Daily Capital (from 1935)
- Stafford County Rustler (from 1889)
- The Advance (from 18??)
- The St. John Advance (from 1880)
- The St. John Capital (from 1954)
- The St. John News (from 1933)
- The St. John Weekly News (from 1888)
- The Stafford County News (from 1879)
- The Sun (from 1885)
- Years of publication: 1885 to 1888
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85066698
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12640876
- Published In Alden [Rice County] ...
- Alden Star-Journal (from 1905)
- The Alden Herald (from 1888)
- The Alden Journal (from 1906)
- The Alden-Raymond News (from 19??)
- The Sandhill Sage (from 19??)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Published In Bison [Rush County] ...
- The Bison Bee (from 1902)
- The Bison Courier (from 1926)
- Published In Frederick [Rice County] ...
- Frederick Bulletin (from 1893)
- Frederick Flame (from 1897)
- Frederick Independent (from 1888)
- Frederick Republican (from 1892)
- Rice County News (from 1890)
- The Frederick News (from 1908)
- Published In Stafford [Stafford County] ...
- Plain Truth (from 1889)
- Stafford County Democrat (from 1885)
- Stafford County Herald (from 1879)
- Stafford County Herald (from 1884)
- Stafford County Leader (from 1898)
- Stafford County Republican (from 1886)
- Stafford County Republican (from 1896)
- Stafford Courier (from 1902)
- Stafford Herald (from 1881)
- Stafford Republican (from 1890)
- The Alliance Herald (from 1890)
- The People's Paper (from 1892)
- The Stafford Citizen (from 1877)
- The Stafford County Herald (from 1889)
- The Weekly Telegram (from 1887)
- Published In Macksville [Stafford County] ...
- Macksville Enterprise (from 1904)
- Macksville Independent (from 1891)
- Macksville Telephone (from 1889)
- The Macksville Argus (from 1900)
- The Macksville Index (from 1901)
- The Macksville Times (from 1886)
- The Sun (from 1892)
- Years of publication: 1892 to 1893
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85066653
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 12640816
- Published In Lyons [Rice County] ...
- Central Kansas News-Democrat (from 1906)
- Lyons Daily News (from 1906)
- Lyons Daily News (from 1929)
- Rice County Breeze (from 1897)
- Rice County Democrat (from 1915)
- Rice County Eagle (from 1890)
- Soldier's Tribune (from 1887)
- The Daily Central Kansas Democrat (from 1886)
- The Daily Republican (from 1882)
- The Lyons Daily Democrat (from 1887)
- The Lyons Daily News And The Lyons Republican (from 1927)
- The Lyons Daily News (from 1922)
- The Lyons Daily Republican (from 1887)
- The Lyons Democrat (from 1889)
- The Lyons News (from 1918)
- The Lyons Prohibitionist (from 1884)
- The Lyons Republican (from 1879)
- The Lyons Tribune (from 1888)
- The Quivira Chieftan (from 1940)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Great Bend. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Barton County: www.bartoncounty.org/
The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Great Bend) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Great Bend. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3615, Longitude: -98.7651 |