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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Alton 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 Alton. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Alton. Our list contains 105 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of West Alton.

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 Alton.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Alton ...

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of West Alton.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- West Alton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Alton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8666, Longitude: -90.2083       In this case, the coordinates for West Alton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).