Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of High Point.
Our newspaper information for High Point 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 High Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding High Point. Our list contains 93 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of High Point.
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 High Point.
Newspapers Neighboring High Point ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of High Point.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from High Point.
- Published In Metropolis [Massac County] ...
- Massac Journal-Republican (from 189?)
- Metropolis Democrat (from 18??)
- Metropolis Register (from 1864)
- Metropolis Times (from 1874)
- Metropolis Weekly Gazette
- Metropolis Weekly Sentinel (from 1858)
- Metropolis Weekly Times (from 1872)
- The Evening Herald (from 1899)
- The Massac Journal (from 1870)
- The Metropolis City Item (from 1887)
- The Metropolis Daily News (from 1917)
- The Metropolis Gazette (from 19??)
- The Metropolis Herald (from 190?)
- The Metropolis News And Republican Herald (from 1949)
- The Metropolis News (from 192?)
- The Metropolis News (from 1951)
- The Metropolis Planet (from 1972)
- The Promulgator (from 1866)
- The Republican Herald (from 1918)
- The Weekly Times (from 1867)
- Published In Brookport [Massac County] ...
- The Brookport Independent (from 19??)
- Published In Paducah ...
- We know of 75 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Paducah. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Paducah
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of High Point. This extended list includes all the papers from Paducah. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for High Point
- Published In Joppa [Massac County] ...
- Joppa Enterprise (from 1911)
- Published In La Center [Ballard County] ...
- La Center Advance (from 190?)
- Liberty (from 19??)
- The Ballard County News (from 1968)
- The Weekly Advance (from 1912)
- Published In Smithland [Livingston County] ...
- Livingston Ledger (from 196?)
- The Cumberland Wave (from 187?)
- The Jackson Republican (from 1845)
- The Livingston County News (from 1960)
- The Livingston Leader (from 19??)
- The Smithland Times (from 1839)
- Published In Golconda [Pope County] ...
- Herald-Enterprise (from 188?)
- Our Quill (from 1883)
- The first year of publication was in 1883, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Our Quill
- Holdings for: LCCN SN94051450
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 31355672
- Pope County Transcript (from 186?)
- The Enterprise (from 1887)
- The Golconda Herald (from 1858)
- The Weekly Commercial (from 1862)
- Weekly Press (from 1892)
- The first year of publication was in 1892, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Weekly Press
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93055595
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27418038
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for High Point. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for McCracken County: www.co.mccracken.ky.us/
The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.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- High Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in High Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1142, Longitude: -88.7156 In this case, the coordinates for High Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |