Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Houma.
Our newspaper information for Houma 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 17 papers that were published in the immediate area of Houma. In addition, the list contains another 32 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Houma. In total, we've identified 49 papers within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Houma.
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 Houma.
Newspapers Published In Houma ...
We know of 17 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Houma:
- Houma Ceres (from 1855)
- Years of publication: 1855 to 18??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card: Houma Ceres
- Holdings: LCCN SN83026391
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 9973417
- ISSN Number: 2332-5380
- Houma Ceres (from 1855)
- Houma Daily Courier And The Terrebonne Press (from 1970)
- Houma Daily Courier (from 1983)
- Houma News (from 1936)
- The Civic Guard (from 186?)
- The first year of publication was in 186?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Civic Guard
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88064543
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 18196944
- The Houma Courier (from 1878)
- The Houma Courier (from 1878)
- The Houma Courier (from 1943)
- The Houma Daily Courier (from 1939)
- The Houma Sun (from 1938)
- The Houma Times (from 1913)
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- The Terrebonne Patriot (from 1868)
- The Terrebonne Press (from 1941)
- The Terrebonne Republican (from 1874)
- The Terrebonne Republican (from 1871)
- The Terrebonne Times (from 188?)
Newspapers Neighboring Houma ...
The following newspapers were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Houma.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Houma.
- 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 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of Houma. 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 Houma
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 from Point A (ie- Houma) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houma. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.5917, Longitude: -90.7127 |