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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Wickford 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 5 papers that were published in the immediate area of Wickford. In addition, the list contains another 68 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Wickford. In total, we've identified 73 papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Wickford.

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 Wickford.  

Newspapers Published In Wickford ...

We know of 5 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Wickford:

Newspapers Neighboring Wickford ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Wickford.

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

  • Published In Kingston  ...
  • Published In West Kingston  ...
  • Published In Apponaug [Kent County] ...
  • Published In Homestead [Newport County] ...
  • Published In Arctic [Kent County] ...
  • 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 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Wickford. 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 Wickford
  • Published In Wakefield  ...
  • Published In Warwick [Kent County] ...
  • Published In Phenix [Kent County] ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wickford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wickford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5739, Longitude: -71.4617       In this case, the coordinates for Wickford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).