Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wells.
Our newspaper information for Wells 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 Wells. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wells. Our list contains 35 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Wells.
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 Wells.
Newspapers Neighboring Wells ...
The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Wells.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Wells.
- Published In Columbus ...
- We know of 37 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Columbus. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Columbus
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Wells. This extended list includes all the papers from Columbus. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wells
- Published In West Point [Clay County] ...
- Clay County Leader (from 1882)
- Daily Times-Leader (from 1935)
- Southern Broad-Axe (from 1859)
- The Daily Times-Herald (from 19??)
- The Dixie Press (from 188?)
- The West Point Leader (from 1892)
- West Point Citizen (from 1871)
- West Point Herald (from 1868)
- West Point Times Leader (from 1928)
- West Point Times (from 1873)
- Published In Aberdeen [Monroe County] ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Aberdeen. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Aberdeen
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Wells. This extended list includes all the papers from Aberdeen. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wells
- Published In Millport [Lamar County] ...
- The Gazette (from 1976)
- The Millport Messenger (from 1931)
- West-Alabama Gazette (from 1980)
- Published In Vernon [Lamar County] ...
- The Lamar Democrat And The Sulligent News (from 1952)
- The Lamar Democrat (from 1896)
- The Lamar News (from 188?)
- The first year of publication was in 188?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Lamar News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN88050122
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 18265206
- The Vernon Clipper (from 187?)
- The Vernon Courier (from 1886)
- The Vernon Pioneer (from 1875)
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- Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5979, Longitude: -88.3945 In this case, the coordinates for Wells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |