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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Kansas City 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 199 papers that were published in the immediate area of Kansas City. In addition, the list contains another 113 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Kansas City. In total, we've identified 312 papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Kansas City.

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 Kansas City.  

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

Newspapers Published In Kansas City ...

We know of 199 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Kansas City:

Newspapers Neighboring Kansas City ...

The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Kansas City.

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

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 from Point A (ie- Kansas City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kansas City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0969, Longitude: -94.5722