Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Houston.
Our newspaper information for Houston 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 Houston. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Houston. Our list contains 63 papers that were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Houston.
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 Houston.
Newspapers Neighboring Houston ...
The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km] of Houston.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Houston.
- Published In Mooresville [Iredell County] ...
- Mooresville Tribune (from 1940)
- The Iredell Gazette (from 1878)
- The Mooresville Enterprise (from 189?)
- The Mooresville Record (from 189?)
- The News Leader (from 1938)
- The Record-Times (from 189?)
- The Rounder And The News Leader (from 1937)
- Published In Barium Springs [Iredell County] ...
- Barium Messenger (from 1923)
- Our Fatherless Ones (from 18??)
- Published In China Grove ...
- China Grove Dart (from 1890)
- The first year of publication was in 1890, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the China Grove Dart
- Holdings for: LCCN SN98058819
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 39327425
- The Rowan Record (from 1909)
- Published In Cool Springs [Iredell County] ...
- The Cool Spring Pen (from 1878)
- Published In Statesville [Iredell County] ...
- We know of 26 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Statesville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Statesville
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Houston. This extended list includes all the papers from Statesville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Houston
- Published In Cooleemee [Davie County] ...
- Erwin Chatter (from 1944)
- The Cooleemee Journal (from 1908)
- Published In Kannapolis ...
- The Daily Independent (from 193?)
- The Independent (from 1929)
- Published In Salisbury ...
- We know of 63 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Salisbury. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Salisbury
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of Houston. This extended list includes all the papers from Salisbury. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Houston
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Houston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6757, Longitude: -80.7228 In this case, the coordinates for Houston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |