Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lafayette.
Our newspaper information for Lafayette 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 Lafayette. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Lafayette. Our list contains 32 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Lafayette.
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 Lafayette.
Newspapers Neighboring Lafayette ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Lafayette.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Lafayette.
- Published In Breaux Bridge [Saint Martin Parish] ...
- Breaux Bridge Banner (from 1973)
- Breaux Bridge Banner (from 1984)
- The Acadian Dispatch (from 1960)
- The Banner (from 1973)
- The Dispatch (from 1961)
- Valley Of The Teche (from 189?)
- Published In Youngsville ...
- Published In Saint Martinville [Saint Martin Parish] ...
- Attakapas Gazette, And St. Mary, St. Martin And Lafayette Advertiser (from 182?)
- Attakapas Gazette (from 1824)
- St. Martin Reveille (from 1885)
- The Courier Of The Teche (from 1849)
- The Echo (from 1872)
- The Echo (from 1872)
- The Evangeline (from 1893)
- The Messenger (from 1886)
- The St. Martin Banner (from 1904)
- Published In Abbeville [Vermilion Parish] ...
- Abbeville Meridional (from 1907)
- Abbeville Progress (from 1913)
- The Meridional (from 1856)
- The Meridional (from 1856)
- The Republican Idea (from 1897)
- The Vermilion Post (from 1948)
- The Vermillion Star (from 1889)
- Published In Crowley [Acadia Parish] ...
- Crowley Daily Signal (from 1922)
- The Acadian-signal (from 1930)
- The Acadian (from 1923)
- The Crowley Mirror (from 18??)
- The Crowley Post Herald (from 1966)
- The Crowley Post-signal (from 1974)
- The Crowley Signal (from 1888)
- The Daily Signal (from 1898)
- The Rice Belt News (from 18??)
- Published In Opelousas [Saint Landry Parish] ...
- We know of 32 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Opelousas. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Opelousas
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Lafayette. This extended list includes all the papers from Opelousas. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Lafayette
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 from Point A (ie- Lafayette) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lafayette. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.2241, Longitude: -92.0165 |