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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Blissdale 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 Blissdale. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Blissdale. Our list contains 54 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Blissdale.

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 Blissdale.  

Newspapers Neighboring Blissdale ...

The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Blissdale.

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

  • Published In Lexington  ...
  • Published In Belzoni [Humphreys County] ...
  • Published In Benton [Yazoo County] ...
    • Yazoo Banner (from 1838)
  • Published In Goodman  ...
  • Published In Yazoo City [Yazoo County] ...
    • We know of 50 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Yazoo City. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Yazoo City
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Blissdale. This extended list includes all the papers from Yazoo City. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Blissdale
  • Published In Pickens  ...
    • The Pickens Post (from 1885)
      • The first year of publication was in 1885, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Pickens Post
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87065555
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16171134
  • Published In Durant  ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Blissdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blissdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.0871, Longitude: -90.2209       In this case, the coordinates for Blissdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).