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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ararat 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 Ararat. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ararat. Our list contains 41 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Ararat.

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 Ararat.  

Newspapers Neighboring Ararat ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Ararat.

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

  • Published In Lake Charles  ...
    • We know of 30 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lake Charles. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lake Charles
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Ararat. This extended list includes all the papers from Lake Charles. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Ararat
  • Published In Maplewood  ...
  • Published In Sulphur  ...
  • Published In Iowa  ...
    • The Iowa News (from 1991)
  • Published In DeQuincy  ...
  • Published In Kinder [Allen Parish] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ararat) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ararat. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3006, Longitude: -93.1999