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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Bend 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 Bend. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Bend. Our list contains 53 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Bend.

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 Bend.  

Newspapers Neighboring Bend ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Bend.

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

  • Published In Box Elder [Pennington County] ...
  • Published In New Underwood [Pennington County] ...
  • Published In Rapid City [Pennington County] ...
    • We know of 36 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rapid City. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Rapid City
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Bend. This extended list includes all the papers from Rapid City. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Bend
  • Published In Caputa [Pennington County] ...
    • Caputa Chatter (from 1950)
    • The Dandelion (from 1921)
  • Published In Farmingdale [Pennington County] ...
  • Published In Tilford  ...
  • Published In Owanka [Pennington County] ...
    • The Owanka Bee (from 1908)
  • Published In Clough  ...
  • Published In Sturgis  ...
  • Published In Keystone [Pennington County] ...
    • The Keystone Recorder
  • Published In Wasta [Pennington County] ...
    • The Wasta Gazette (from 19??)
    • The Wasta World (from 193?)

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 from Point A (ie- Bend) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bend. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2278, Longitude: -103.0102       In this case, the coordinates for Bend have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).