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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Houston 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 Houston. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Houston. Our list contains 15 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Houston.

Newspapers Neighboring Houston ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of Houston.

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

  • Published In Clifton  ...
  • Published In Collinwood  ...
    • Collinwood Pilot (from 1916)
  • Published In Waynesboro  ...
  • Published In Savannah [Hardin County] ...
    • News-Progress (from 1951)
    • Savannah Courier (from 1885)
    • Savannah Courier (from 1885)
    • Tennessee River News (from 1873)
    • Tennessee Transcript (from 1874)

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Houston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2415, Longitude: -87.9178       In this case, the coordinates for Houston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).