Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Baton Rouge.
Our newspaper information for Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Baton Rouge. Our list contains 31 papers that were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Baton Rouge.
Newspapers Neighboring Baton Rouge ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km] of Baton Rouge.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Baton Rouge.
- Published In Chester ...
- Chester Reporter (from 1869)
- Chester Standard (from 1853)
- News And Reporter (from 1971)
- Palmetto Standard (from 1851)
- Public Opinion (from 1891)
- The Chester Bulletin (from 1882)
- The Chester News (from 1917)
- The Druggist (from 1886)
- The Lantern (from 1897)
- The Palmetto Standard (from 1895)
- The Semi-Weekly News (from 1913)
- The Semi-Weekly Standard (from 1868)
- The State Bulletin (from 1879)
- Published In Union [Union County] ...
- Progress (from 1900)
- Years of publication: 1900 to 1924
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Progress
- Holdings for: LCCN SN91066488
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 23442174
- The New Era (from 1897)
- The Review (from 1929)
- The Union County News (from 1966)
- The Union Daily Times (from 1918)
- The Union Standard (from 1906)
- The Union Times (from 1894)
- The Union Times (from 1917)
- The Vindicator (from 1899)
- The Weekly Union Times (from 1871)
- Union Daily Progress (from 1925)
- Union Weekly Progress (from 1925)
- Published In Whitmire [Newberry County] ...
- The Courier & Citizens Journal (from 1990)
- The Whitmire Courier (from 1989)
- The Whitmire News (from 1934)
- The Whitmire News (from 1949)
- Published In York [York County] ...
- Enquirer-Herald (from 2006)
- York News (from 1913)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Baton Rouge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Baton Rouge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6971, Longitude: -81.3440 In this case, the coordinates for Baton Rouge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |