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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:

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