Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rockford.
Our newspaper information for Rockford 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 4 papers that were published in the immediate area of Rockford. In addition, the list contains another 244 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Rockford. In total, we've identified 248 papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Rockford.
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 Rockford.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.
Newspapers Published In Rockford ...
We know of 4 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Rockford:
- Rockford Weekly Register (from 1871)
- The Rockford Register & The Pre-View (from 197?)
- The Rockford Register (from 1975)
- The Rockford Squire (from 1983)
Newspapers Neighboring Rockford ...
The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Rockford.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Rockford.
- Published In Cedar Springs ...
- Cedar Springs Clipper (from 1977)
- Cedar Springs Clipper (from 1874)
- Cedar Springs Democrat (from 1891)
- Cedar Springs Liberal (from 1905)
- Cedar Springs Post (from 1988)
- The Clipper (from 1973)
- The Northland News (from 1982)
- The Wolverine Clipper (from 1869)
- Published In Sparta ...
- North Kent Advance (from 19??)
- North Kent Leader (from 1974)
- Sparta Sentinel And Leader (from 1900)
- Sparta Sentinel (from 18??)
- The Sentinel Leader And Comstock Park Courier-News (from 1965)
- The Sentinel-Leader (from 1931)
- The Sparta Reminder Sentinel-Leader (from 19??)
- The Sparta Reminder (from 19??)
- Published In Grand Rapids ...
- We know of 137 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Grand Rapids. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Grand Rapids
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Rockford. This extended list includes all the papers from Grand Rapids. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rockford.
Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
- Published In Greenville [Montcalm County] ...
- Daily News (from 1879)
- The first year of publication was in 1879, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Daily News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN96077005
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 35294187
- Dansk Folkeblad (from 1895)
- Greenville Daily News (from 1927)
- Greenville Daily News (from 18??)
- Greenville Democrat (from 1871)
- Greenville Independent And Montcalm Reflector (from 1857)
- Greenville Independent (from 185?)
- Independent Daily News (from 1924)
- Ionia-Montcalm Magazine (from 2004)
- Ionia-Montcalm Magazine (from 2004)
- Local Option Yellow Jacket
- Montcalm Reflector (from 1854)
- The Daily Call (from 18??)
- The Daily News And Belding Banner (from 1974)
- The Daily News (from 1977)
- The Daily News (from 1949)
- Trails-A-Way (from 19??)
- Tri-Weekly News (from 18??)
- Published In Belding [Ionia County] ...
- Belding Banner (from 1889)
- Belding Flat River News (from 1976)
- Belding Home News (from 1879)
- Belding Star (from 18??)
- Belding Telegram (from 1877)
- The first year of publication was in 1877, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Belding Telegram
- Holdings for: LCCN SN98066946
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 40048849
- The Banner And Flat River Emporium (from 1973)
- The Belding Banner-News (from 1918)
- The Belding News (from 18??)
- The Daily Banner (from 19??)
- The Daily Bee (from 1903)
- Published In Wyoming ...
- Southkent News-Advocate (from 1980)
- Wyoming Advance (from 19??)
- Wyoming Alliance (from 19??)
- Published In Lowell ...
- Ledger-Suburban Life (from 1968)
- Lowell Journal (from 1873)
- Lowell Ledger (from 1893)
- Lowell Star (from 1860)
- Lowell Weekly Journal (from 18??)
- Suburban Life (from 1955)
- The Grand Valley Ledger (from 1975)
- The Lowell Ledger (from 1987)
- Published In Coral [Montcalm County] ...
- Home Rule Herald (from 1916)
- The Coral News (from 189?)
- The Reformer (from 1905)
- Published In Grandville ...
- Grandville News (from 1907)
- The Almanac For Grandville (from 1970)
- The Grandville Almanac (from 1971)
- The Grandville Star (from 1907)
- The Star And Alliance (from 1937)
- Published In Coopersville [Ottawa County] ...
- The Cooperville Observer (from 1880)
- The Ottawa Courier (from 1875)
- Published In Grant [Newaygo County] ...
- The Good Templar News (from 18??)
- The Grant Herald And Independent
- Published In Howard City [Montcalm County] ...
- Howard City Record (from 1886)
- Howard Record (from 1872)
- River Valley News-shopper (from 1986)
- The Howard City Record (from 1954)
- The Record (from 1983)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Published In Jenison [Ottawa County] ...
- Grand Valley Advance (from 19??)
- Published In Ravenna [Muskegon County] ...
- Grand Valley Journal (from 1974)
- The Ravenna Times (from 1888)
- Times-Clipper (from 19??)
- Published In Allendale [Ottawa County] ...
- The Grand Valley State Colleges Lanthorn (from 1973)
- The Lanthorn (from 1968)
- Published In Saranac [Ionia County] ...
- Grand River Standard (from 1870)
- The Advertiser (from 1893)
- The Saranac Reporter (from 1875)
- Published In Byron Center ...
- The Byron Centre Review (from 1903)
- Published In Caledonia ...
- The Caledonia News (from 188?)
- Published In Hudsonville [Ottawa County] ...
- Hudsonville Herald (from 189?)
- Published In Newaygo [Newaygo County] ...
- Newaygo Republican (from 1856)
- The Newaygo Tribune (from 1875)
- Published In Fenwick [Montcalm County] ...
- The Fenwick News (from 1903)
- Published In Clarksville [Ionia County] ...
- Published In Lakeview [Montcalm County] ...
- Lakeview Enterprise (from 1986)
- The Lakeview Citizen (from 1876)
- The Lakeview Enterprise (from 1879)
- Published In Morley [Mecosta County] ...
- Morley Banner (from 19??)
- Riverland Review (from 1993)
- Published In Ionia [Ionia County] ...
- Ionia County Democrat (from 1868)
- Ionia County Sentinel (from 1866)
- Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard (from 1919)
- Ionia Daily Sentinel (from 1879)
- Ionia Daily Telephone (from 187?)
- Ionia Democrat (from 18??)
- Ionia Evening Mail (from 18??)
- Ionia Journal (from 1843)
- Ionia Weekly Journal (from 18??)
- Sentinel-Standard (from 1981)
- The Ionia County News (from 1921)
- The Ionia Daily Standard (from 188?)
- The Ionia Express (from 18??)
- The Ionia Gazette (from 1849)
- The Ionia Republican (from 1855)
- The Ionia Sentinel-Standard (from 1921)
- The Ionia Sentinel (from 1869)
- The Ionia Standard (from 1873)
- The Ionia Weekly Sentinel
- The Standard (from 18??)
- Published In Stanton [Montcalm County] ...
- Montcalm County Journal (from 1875)
- Montcalm County News (from 1959)
- Stanton Clipper-Herald (from 1913)
- Stanton Weekly Clipper (from 1879)
- The Clipper-Herald The Crystal Dispatch And The Sheridan Citizen (from 1958)
- The Clipper-Herald (from 1953)
- The Montcalm Herald (from 1867)
- Published In Freeport [Barry County] ...
- Freeport Advertiser (from 1878)
- The Freeport Herald (from 1883)
- The Freeport News (from 1926)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Rockford: www.rockford.mi.us/
The official website for Kent County: www.accesskent.com/
The official website for State of Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rockford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1261, Longitude: -85.5567 In this case, the coordinates for Rockford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |