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Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Platte 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 Platte. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Platte. Our list contains 122 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of West Platte.

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 Platte.  

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Newspapers Neighboring West Platte ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of West Platte.

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

  • Published In Weston  ...
  • Published In Platte City  ...
  • Published In Camden Point  ...
    • The Home Bee
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Home Bee
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93060077
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 28946844
    • The Platte County News (from 1917)
  • Published In Leavenworth [Leavenworth County] ...
    • We know of 127 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Leavenworth. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Leavenworth
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of West Platte. This extended list includes all the papers from Leavenworth. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Platte.

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  • Published In Dearborn  ...
    • Dearborn Democrat (from 189?)
    • The Democrat (from 1890)
  • Published In Edgerton  ...
  • Published In De Kalb [Buchanan County] ...
  • Published In Smithville [Clay County] ...
  • Published In Easton [Leavenworth County] ...
    • Easton Light (from 1895)
    • Easton Light (from 1900)
    • Easton Transcript (from 1911)
    • The Easton Herald (from 1904)
    • The Transcript (from 1908)
  • Published In Parkville  ...
  • Published In Potter [Atchison County] ...
  • Published In Atchison [Atchison County] ...
    • We know of 66 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Atchison. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Atchison
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of West Platte. This extended list includes all the papers from Atchison. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Platte.

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  • Continue List   (6 more) ...

The official website for Chronicling America

Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for West Platte. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Platte County: www.co.platte.mo.us/

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 drawn from Point A (ie- West Platte) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Platte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3893, Longitude: -94.8400       In this case, the coordinates for West Platte have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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