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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Wells 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 Wells. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wells. Our list contains 224 papers that were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Wells.

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 Wells.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring Wells ...

The following newspapers were published within 17 miles [27.4 km] of Wells.

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

  • Published In Frayser  ...
  • Published In Bartlett  ...
  • Published In Memphis  ...
    • We know of 206 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Memphis. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Memphis
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of Wells. This extended list includes all the papers from Memphis. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Wells.

      Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
  • Published In Cordova  ...
  • Published In Germantown  ...
    • Germantown News (from 1974)
    • The Shelby Sun Times (from 19??)
  • Published In Mound City [Crittenden County] ...
  • Published In Millington  ...
  • Published In Olive Branch [DeSoto County] ...
  • Published In Arlington  ...
  • Published In Collierville  ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1823, Longitude: -89.9170       In this case, the coordinates for Wells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).