Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Chopin.
Our newspaper information for Chopin 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 Chopin. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Chopin. Our list contains 32 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Chopin.
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 Chopin.
Newspapers Neighboring Chopin ...
The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of Chopin.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Chopin.
- Published In Convent ...
- Le Louisianais (from 1865)
- Le Louisianais (from 1865)
- Le Louisianais (from 1865)
- St. James Sentinel (from 1871)
- Published In Vacherie ...
- The Enterprise (from 1976)
- Published In Garyville [Saint John the Baptist Parish] ...
- The Garyville Sentinel (from 1923)
- The Sentinel (from 1923)
- Published In Donaldsonville [Ascension Parish] ...
- Ascension Advocate (from 1900)
- Lafourche Gazette (from 1826)
- Le Drapeau De l'Ascension (from 1858)
- Le Drapeau (from 1865)
- Le Louisianais (from 184?)
- Le Vigilant (from 1845)
- Planters' Advocate (from 183?)
- The Ascension Democrat (from 188?)
- The Ascension Leader (from 1871)
- The Coast Journal (from 1854)
- The Daily Times (from 1896)
- The Donaldsonville Times (from 1895)
- The Louisiana State Gazette And Creole (from 18??)
- The Republican Eagle (from 1834)
- The Triune-Democrat (from 1877)
- The Vigilant (from 1877)
- The first year of publication was in 1877, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Vigilant
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88064550
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 18196973
- The Weekly Democrat (from 1905)
- The Weekly Times (from 1902)
- Published In Napoleonville [Assumption Parish] ...
- Assumption Chronicle (from 1870)
- Le Pionnier De l'Assomption (from 1850)
- Le Pionnier De l'Assomption (from 1850)
- Pioneer Of Assumption (from 185?)
- Pioneer Of Assumption (from 185?)
- The Assumption Advocate (from 1867)
- The Assumption Eagle (from 1902)
- The Assumption Pioneer (from 1895)
- Published In Thibodaux [Lafourche Parish] ...
- We know of 32 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Thibodaux. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Thibodaux
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of Chopin. This extended list includes all the papers from Thibodaux. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Chopin
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Saint James Parish: www.stjamesla.com/
The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chopin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chopin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.9841, Longitude: -90.8048 In this case, the coordinates for Chopin have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |