Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rapides.
Our newspaper information for Rapides 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 Rapides. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rapides. Our list contains 42 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Rapides.
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 Rapides.
Newspapers Neighboring Rapides ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Rapides.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Rapides.
- Published In Alexandria ...
- We know of 30 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Alexandria. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Alexandria
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Rapides. This extended list includes all the papers from Alexandria. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rapides
- Published In Pineville ...
- Pineville News (from 1947)
- Rapides Free Press (from 19??)
- The Red River Journal (from 1975)
- Published In Colfax [Grant Parish] ...
- Grant Parish Democrat (from 19??)
- Grant Parish Enterprise (from 1928)
- The Chronicle (from 1981)
- The Colfax Chronicle (from 1876)
- The Colfax Chronicle (from 1876)
- The Colfax Chronicle (from 1877)
- The People's Demands (from 18??)
- Published In Lecompte ...
- The Lecompte Drummer (from 1899)
- The Lecompte Messenger (from 18??)
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- Rapides) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rapides. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.3635, Longitude: -92.5868 In this case, the coordinates for Rapides have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |