Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Plainfield.
Our newspaper information for Plainfield is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 18 papers that were published in the immediate area of Plainfield. In addition, the list contains another 103 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Plainfield. In total, we've identified 121 papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Plainfield.
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 Plainfield.
Newspapers Published In Plainfield ...
We know of 18 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Plainfield:
- Central New Jersey Times (from 1868)
- Constitutionalist (from 1868)
- National Courier (from 1975)
- New Jersey State Republican (from 1873)
- Plainfield Courier-News (from 1894)
- Plainfield Daily Press (from 1912)
- Plainfield Evening News (from 1885)
- Plainfield Today (from 1983)
- Plainfield Union And General Advertiser (from 1837)
- Plainfield Union (from 1837)
- Somerset And Union Gazette (from 1859)
- The Daily Bulletin (from 1879)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- The Daily Press (from 1887)
- The Evening News (from 1884)
- The Plainfield Courier (from 1891)
- The Plainfield Times (from 1972)
- The Voice (from 1968)
- Union (from 1837)
- Published during 1837
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Union
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86091500
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13780864
Newspapers Neighboring Plainfield ...
The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Plainfield.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Plainfield.
- Published In Piscataway [Middlesex County] ...
- Piscataway Review (from 199?)
- The Chronicle (from 1993)
- Published In Westfield ...
- The Standard (from 1913)
- The Union County Standard (from 1887)
- The Westfield Townsman (from 1876)
- Published In Cranford ...
- The Cranford Chronicle (from 1893)
- The Cranford Citizen (from 1898)
- The Cranford Comet (from 1872)
- The Cranford Courier (from 1876)
- Published In Rahway ...
- Advocate And Register (from 1850)
- National Democrat (from 1864)
- New Jersey Advocate (from 1887)
- New-Jersey Advocate, And Middlesex And Essex Advertiser (from 1823)
- New-Jersey Advocate (from 1840)
- Rahway Daily Record, And New Jersey Advocate (from 1912)
- Rahway Daily Record (from 1911)
- Rahway News-Herald (from 1909)
- Register & Times (from 1862)
- Register And American (from 18??)
- The Advocate And Times (from 1863)
- The Censor (from 1884)
- The Daily Rahwegian (from 1878)
- The Rahway Advocate (from 1882)
- The Rahway Herald, And New Jersey General Advertiser (from 1837)
- The Rahway Record (from 1931)
- The Rahway Register (from 1847)
- The Rahway Republican, And Union And Middlesex National Democrat (from 185?)
- The Rahway Republican (from 1845)
- The Republican (from 18??)
- The Sun (from 1839)
- Years of publication: 1839 to ????
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85035857
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13084899
- The Town News (from 1888)
- The Union Democrat (from 1891)
- The Weekly Advocate And Times (from 1866)
- Published In Summit ...
- Summit Gazette (from 1888)
- Summit Herald (from 1890)
- Summit Record (from 1883)
- The Summit Herald And Summit Record (from 1923)
- The Summit Press And Independent Weekly (from 19??)
- Published In Woodbridge [Middlesex County] ...
- Central Jersey Focus (from 1987)
- Leader-Journal (from 1934)
- Middlesex County Press And Woodbridge Independent (from 1922)
- The Constitutional Courant (from 1765)
- The Independent Hour (from 1876)
- The Middlesex County Leader-Press (from 1966)
- The News Tribune (from 19??)
- The Woodbridge News (from 1899)
- Woodbridge Gazette (from 1866)
- Woodbridge Independent And Middlesex County Gazette (from 1922)
- Woodbridge Independent And The Mosquito (from 1919)
- Woodbridge Independent (from 1919)
- Woodbridge Independent (from 1923)
- Woodbridge Independent (from 1922)
- Woodbridge Leader (from 1909)
- Published In Linden ...
- Freedom (from 1932)
- Years of publication: 1932 to 19??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Freedom
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95068919
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 31682891
- Published In New Brunswick [Middlesex County] ...
- We know of 72 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of New Brunswick. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for New Brunswick
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Plainfield. This extended list includes all the papers from New Brunswick. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Plainfield
- Published In Somerset [Somerset County] ...
- Somerset Rapport (from 197?)
- The Somerset Spectator (from 1969)
- Published In Maplewood [Essex County] ...
- Maplewood News (from 1925)
- The Maplewood News And Maplewood Record (from 1942)
- Published In Perth Amboy [Middlesex County] ...
- Middlesex Republican (from 1934)
- New-Jersey Gazette, And Perth-Amboy Commercial Advertiser (from 1819)
- Perth Amboy Citizen (from 1901)
- Perth Amboy Democrat (from 1859)
- Perth Amboy Evening News (from 1903)
- Perth Amboy Mosquito (from 1944)
- Perth Amboy Observer And The Perth Amboy Record (from 1930)
- Perth Amboy Times (from 1858)
- The Jersey Mosquito (from 1919)
- The Labor News Weekly (from 1917)
- The Messenger (from 1906)
- The Middlesex County Democrat (from 1868)
- The Middlesex County Herald (from 1889)
- The Mosquito (from 1898)
- The Mosquito (from 1922)
- The New Jersey Era (from 1866)
- The Perth Amboy Chronicle (from 1890)
- The Perth Amboy Gazette (from 1875)
- The Perth Amboy Herald (from 1860)
- The Perth Amboy Journal And Middlesex County Advertiser (from 1859)
- The Perth Amboy Journal (from 1858)
- The Perth Amboy Republican (from 1887)
- The Weekly Guardian (from 1873)
- Vostok = The East (from 1920)
- Published In Short Hills [Essex County] ...
- The News Item (from 1888)
- The Short-Hills News Item (from 1889)
- Published In Weston [Somerset County] ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Plainfield: www.plainfield.com/
The official website for Union County: www.unioncountynj.org/
The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Plainfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Plainfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6189, Longitude: -74.4196 |