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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Prescott 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 Prescott. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Prescott. Our list contains 179 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Prescott.

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 Prescott.  

Newspapers Neighboring Prescott ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Prescott.

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

  • Published In Hume [Bates County] ...
    • Bates County Globe (from 1894)
    • Border Messenger (from 1925)
    • Hume Border Messenger (from 1931)
    • Hume News (from 1883)
      • Years of publication:  1883 to 1884
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Hume News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90061112
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 20850424
    • The Border Telephone (from 1889)
    • The Hume Star (from 1884)
  • Published In Mound City  ...
  • Published In Pleasanton  ...
  • Published In Mapleton [Bourbon County] ...
    • Mapleton Dispatch (from 1905)
    • Mapleton Dispatch (from 1894)
    • Mapleton Dispatch (from 1889)
    • Mapleton Review (from 1923)
    • The Mapleton Press (from 1905)
  • Published In Worland [Bates County] ...
    • Worland Watchman (from 1892)
  • Published In Foster [Bates County] ...
    • Foster News (from 189?)
  • Published In Richards [Vernon County] ...
  • Published In Amoret [Bates County] ...
  • Published In Metz [Vernon County] ...
    • The Metz Times (from 1902)
  • Published In Fort Scott [Bourbon County] ...
    • We know of 65 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Fort Scott. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Fort Scott
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Prescott. This extended list includes all the papers from Fort Scott. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Prescott
  • Published In Redfield [Bourbon County] ...
  • Published In Rich Hill [Bates County] ...
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prescott) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prescott. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0636, Longitude: -94.6954