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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Lawton is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 2 papers that were published in the immediate area of Lawton. In addition, the list contains another 225 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Lawton. In total, we've identified 227 papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Lawton.

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 Lawton.  

Newspapers Published In Lawton ...

The following newspapers have been published in the immediate area of Lawton:

  • Lawton Leader (from 1887)
  • The Leader (from 1965)

Newspapers Neighboring Lawton ...

The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Lawton.

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

  • Published In Paw Paw  ...
  • Published In Decatur  ...
  • Published In Marcellus [Cass County] ...
    • Republican Standard (from 1876)
    • The Marcellus News (from 187?)
  • Published In Lawrence  ...
  • Published In Schoolcraft [Kalamazoo County] ...
    • Dispatch And News (from 1873)
      • The first year of publication was in 1873, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Dispatch And News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85026574
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12273127
    • Schoolcraft Express (from 18??)
    • The Schoolcraft Dispatch (from 1869)
  • Published In Gobles  ...
    • Gobles News (from 1922)
  • Published In Portage [Kalamazoo County] ...
  • Published In Kalamazoo [Kalamazoo County] ...
    • We know of 81 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Kalamazoo. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Kalamazoo
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Lawton. This extended list includes all the papers from Kalamazoo. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Lawton
  • Published In Bangor  ...
  • Published In Breedsville  ...
  • Published In Hartford  ...
    • People's Alliance (from 1892)
    • The Day Spring (from 1964)
    • The Hartford Day Spring (from 1871)
    • Van Buren County Appeal (from 1936)
  • Published In Vicksburg [Kalamazoo County] ...
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lawton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lawton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1678, Longitude: -85.8459       In this case, the coordinates for Lawton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).