Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Wakefield.
Our newspaper information for Wakefield 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 6 papers that were published in the immediate area of Wakefield. In addition, the list contains another 63 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Wakefield. In total, we've identified 69 papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Wakefield.
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 Wakefield.
Newspapers Published In Wakefield ...
We know of 6 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Wakefield:
- Narragansett Times And Washington County Advertiser (from 1864)
- Narragansett Times (from 1855)
- Narragansett Times (from 1859)
- Narragansett Times (from 1889)
- South County Journal (from 1858)
- The Wakefield Advertiser (from 1851)
Newspapers Neighboring Wakefield ...
The following newspapers were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Wakefield.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Wakefield.
- Published In Kingston ...
- Rhode-Island Advocate (from 1831)
- Published In West Kingston ...
- South County Chronicle (from 1893)
- Published In Shannock ...
- Shannock Weekly Sentinel (from 1882)
- Published In Wickford ...
- The Rhode Island Telephone & Genealogical And Historical Repository (from 1883)
- The Standard (from 1890)
- The Wickford Standard (from 1914)
- Washington County Advocate (from 183?)
- Wickford Standard (from 1888)
- Published In Newport [Newport County] ...
- We know of 57 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Newport. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Newport
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> of Wakefield. This extended list includes all the papers from Newport. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wakefield
- Published In Hope Valley ...
- Hope Valley Advertiser (from 1881)
- Hope Valley Advertiser (from 1894)
- Hope Valley Free Press (from 189?)
- Sentinel And Advertiser (from 1883)
- Wood River Advertiser (from 1876)
- Published In Homestead [Newport County] ...
- The Prudence Island Beacon (from 1926)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wakefield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wakefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4373, Longitude: -71.5014 In this case, the coordinates for Wakefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |