Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Houston.
Our newspaper information for Houston 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 Houston. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Houston. Our list contains 12 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Houston.
Newspapers Neighboring Houston ...
The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Houston.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Houston.
- Published In Kinder ...
- Kinder Progress (from 1953)
- The Kinder Courier News (from 1979)
- Published In Elton [Jefferson Davis Parish] ...
- The Elton Progress (from 1912)
- Published In Basile [Evangeline Parish] ...
- Basile Weekly (from 1964)
- Published In Oakdale ...
- Oakdale Beacon (from 19??)
- The Oakdale Journal (from 1913)
- Published In Eunice [Saint Landry Parish] ...
- The Eunice News (from 1951)
- The New Era And Clarion-News (from 1951)
- The New Era (from 1919)
- Published In Mamou [Evangeline Parish] ...
- The Acadian Press (from 1967)
- The Mamou Acadian Press (from 1968)
- Published In Iowa [Calcasieu Parish] ...
- The Iowa News (from 1991)
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Houston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5502, Longitude: -92.8076 In this case, the coordinates for Houston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |