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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Ontario 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 Ontario. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Ontario. Our list contains 46 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Ontario.

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 Ontario.  

Newspapers Neighboring Ontario ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Ontario.

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

  • Published In Beallsville  ...
  • Published In Fredericktown [Fayette County] ...
  • Published In Charleroi  ...
  • Published In California  ...
  • Published In Monessen [Westmoreland County] ...
  • Published In Monongahela  ...
    • Key News (from 1961)
      • Years of publication:  1961 to 1962
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Key News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88079000
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17311261
    • The Monongahela Times (from 1903)
    • The Monongahela Times (from 1902)
    • The Register (from 1980)
  • Published In Roscoe  ...
  • Published In Washington  ...
    • We know of 46 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Washington. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Washington
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Ontario. This extended list includes all the papers from Washington. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Ontario

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ontario) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ontario. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1034, Longitude: -80.0745       In this case, the coordinates for Ontario have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).