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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oak Ridge.

Our newspaper information for Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oak Ridge. Our list contains 35 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Oak Ridge.

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 Oak Ridge.  

Newspapers Neighboring Oak Ridge ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of Oak Ridge.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oak Ridge.

  • Published In Rayville [Richland Parish] ...
  • Published In Bastrop  ...
  • Published In Delhi [Richland Parish] ...
  • Published In Monroe [Ouachita Parish] ...
    • We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Monroe. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Monroe
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Oak Ridge. This extended list includes all the papers from Monroe. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oak Ridge
  • Published In West Monroe [Ouachita Parish] ...
    • The Citizen (from 1980)
    • The Ouachita Citizen (from 1983)
    • The Ouachita Citizen (from 1927)
    • The Ouachita Democrat (from 1887)
    • The West Monroe Citizen (from 1925)
    • The West Monroe Union (from 188?)

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.6244, Longitude: -91.7731       In this case, the coordinates for Oak Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).