Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Altus.
Our newspaper information for Altus 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 Altus. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Altus. Our list contains 60 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Altus.
Newspapers Neighboring Altus ...
The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Altus.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Altus.
- Published In Oxford ...
- Lafayette County News (from 1899)
- Lafayette County News (from 1959)
- Lafayette County Press (from 1906)
- Oxford Eagle (from 1876)
- Oxford Sun (from 1881)
- Oxford Weekly Ricochet (from 1874)
- Random Shot (from 1876)
- The first year of publication was in 1876, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Random Shot
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88067095
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 17347302
- The Constitution (from 1851)
- The Democratic Flag (from 1852)
- The Independent (from 1914)
- The Lafayette Post (from 1937)
- The Organizer (from 1845)
- The Oxford Falcon (from 1865)
- The Oxford Globe (from 1889)
- The Oxford Intelligencer (from 1860)
- The Oxford Mercury (from 1857)
- The Oxford Observer (from 1843)
- The Oxford Signal (from 1856)
- The Oxford Times (from 1985)
- The Star Of The Union (from 1850)
- Published In Water Valley [Yalobusha County] ...
- The City Itemizer (from 1894)
- The Free Churchman (from 1886)
- The Mississippi Central (from 1870)
- The North Mississippi Herald (from 1888)
- The North Mississippi Herald (from 1929)
- The Progress-Itemizer (from 1918)
- The Southern Eagle (from 18??)
- The Water Valley Courier (from 1867)
- Water Valley Progress (from 1882)
- Yalobusha Democrat (from 1930)
- Published In Ecru [Pontotoc County] ...
- The Ecru Echo (from 1915)
- Published In Pontotoc [Pontotoc County] ...
- Mississippi Intelligencer And General Advertiser For The New Counties (from 1838)
- Mississippi Intelligencer (from 1840)
- Pontotoc Intelligencer (from 187?)
- The Advance (from 19??)
- The Chickasaw Union (from 1836)
- The Examiner (from 1853)
- The People's Banner (from 1892)
- The Pontotoc Democrat (from 1887)
- The Pontotoc Democrat (from 18??)
- The Pontotoc Observer (from 188?)
- The Pontotoc Progress (from 1929)
- The Pontotoc Sentinel
- The Pontotoc Sentinel (from 1894)
- The Sentinel (from 1910)
- The Spirit Of The Times (from 1841)
- The Weekly Folio (from 1876)
- Published In Bruce [Calhoun County] ...
- The Bruce Times (from 19??)
- The Calhoun County Courier (from 1929)
- The Calhoun County Journal (from 1953)
- Published In New Albany [Union County] ...
- New Albany Times (from 1931)
- New Albany Union (from 1871)
- The Community Citizen (from 19??)
- The New Albany Gazette (from 1890)
- Union County Times (from 19??)
- Union Weekly Times (from 1922)
- Published In Pittsboro [Calhoun County] ...
- The Calhoun Monitor (from 1900)
- The Calhoun News (from 1901)
- The Democratic Banner (from 1883)
- The Dixie Herald (from 19??)
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- Altus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Altus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3411, Longitude: -89.3950 In this case, the coordinates for Altus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |