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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Bend 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 Bend. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Bend. Our list contains 99 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of West Bend.

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 Bend.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Bend ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of West Bend.

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

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 drawn from Point A (ie- West Bend) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Bend. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4575, Longitude: -93.4610       In this case, the coordinates for West Bend have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).