Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oak Ridge.
Our newspaper information for Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oak Ridge. Our list contains 79 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Oak Ridge.
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 Oak Ridge.
Newspapers Neighboring Oak Ridge ...
The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Oak Ridge.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oak Ridge.
- Published In Jackson ...
- Cape County Post (from 1918)
- Deutscher Volksfreund (from 1886)
- Independent Patriot (from 1820)
- Jackson Courier (from 1853)
- Jackson Eagle (from 183?)
- Jackson Mercury And Cape Girardeau Farmer (from 1828)
- Jackson Post & Cash-book (from 1965)
- Southern Advocate (from 1838)
- Southern Democrat (from 1850)
- The Cash-book Journal (from 1977)
- The Jackson Herald (from 1897)
- The Jackson Items (from 1910)
- The Jackson Journal (from 1964)
- The Jackson Pioneer (from 1962)
- The Jeffersonian (from 1852)
- The Missouri Cash-book (from 1871)
- The Review (from 1845)
- The Southern Missouri Advocate (from 1838)
- Published In Grand Tower [Jackson County] ...
- Fountain Bluff News (from 1974)
- Grand Tower Item (from 1875)
- Grand Tower News (from 1901)
- Grand Tower Topic
- River Community News (from 1980)
- The Enterprise (from 1878)
- The first year of publication was in 1878, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Enterprise
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92054670
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27002516
- Published In Cape Girardeau ...
- We know of 46 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Cape Girardeau. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Cape Girardeau
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Oak Ridge. This extended list includes all the papers from Cape Girardeau. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oak Ridge
- Published In Perryville [Perry County] ...
- People's Forum (from 1874)
- Perry County Republican (from 1889)
- Perry County Republic (from 1975)
- Perryville Chronicle (from 1885)
- The Community Press Of Perryville (from 1981)
- The Community Press (from 1979)
- The Mid America Farmer Grower (from 1988)
- The MidAmerica Farmer (from 1987)
- The MidAmerica Regional Farmer (from 1987)
- The Monitor (from 1956)
- The New Era (from 1920)
- The New Republican Era (from 1913)
- The Perry County Republic-Monitor (from 1993)
- The Perry County Sun (from 1880)
- The Perryville Weekly Union (from 1870)
- The Weekly Perryville Union (from 1862)
- Published In Lutesville [Bollinger County] ...
- Missouri Herald (from 1872)
- The Lutesville Banner (from 1891)
- Published In Marble Hill [Bollinger County] ...
- Bollinger County Times (from 1896)
- Marble Hill Press (from 1881)
- Marble Hill Press (from 1881)
- The Banner-Press (from 1923)
- The Bollinger County Standard (from 1868)
- Weekly Herald (from 1872)
- Published In Jacob [Jackson County] ...
- Mississippi Valley News (from 19??)
- Published In Chaffee [Scott County] ...
- North Scott County News (from 1989)
- Scott County News (from 1993)
- Scott County Signal (from 1993)
- The Chaffee Signal (from 1910)
- The Signal And North Scott County News (from 1967)
- Published In Illmo [Scott County] ...
- The Illmo Jimplicute (from 1914)
- The Jimplicute (from 1917)
- Published In Marquand [Madison County] ...
- The Marquand Echo (from 1887)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Oak Ridge. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/
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- Oak Ridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4988, Longitude: -89.7294 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |