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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Ferriday.

Our newspaper information for West Ferriday 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 West Ferriday. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Ferriday. Our list contains 120 papers that were published within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of West Ferriday.

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 West Ferriday.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring West Ferriday ...

The following newspapers were published within 23 miles [37 km] of West Ferriday.

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

  • Published In Ferriday  ...
  • Published In Vidalia  ...
  • Published In Natchez [Adams County] ...
    • We know of 108 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Natchez. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Natchez
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 23 miles [37 km]<1> of West Ferriday. This extended list includes all the papers from Natchez. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Ferriday.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Trinity [Catahoula Parish] ...
  • Published In Jonesville [Catahoula Parish] ...
  • Published In Waterproof [Tensas Parish] ...
  • Published In Washington [Adams County] ...
    • Cadet (from 1831)
      • The first year of publication was in 1831, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Cadet
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88067096
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17347300
    • Washington Republican (from 1813)
  • Published In Harrisonburg [Catahoula Parish] ...
    • The Catahoula News (from 1873)
    • The Independent (from 1853)
    • The Independent (from 1853)
    • The New Era (from 186?)
      • The first year of publication was in 186?, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The New Era
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064049
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17449990
  • Published In Wisner [Franklin Parish] ...

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- West Ferriday) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Ferriday. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.6404, Longitude: -91.5732       In this case, the coordinates for West Ferriday have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).