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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Black Point 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 Black Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Black Point. Our list contains 83 papers that were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Black Point.

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 Black Point.  

Newspapers Neighboring Black Point ...

The following newspapers were published within 28 miles [45.1 km] of Black Point.

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

  • Published In Taft [San Patricio County] ...
    • The Taft Tribune (from 1921)
  • Published In Woodsboro  ...
  • Published In Rockport [Aransas County] ...
  • Published In Portland [San Patricio County] ...
    • Portland Advocate (from 1892)
    • The Portland News (from 1964)
  • Published In Ingleside [San Patricio County] ...
  • Published In Refugio  ...
  • Published In Sinton [San Patricio County] ...
  • Published In Port Aransas [Nueces County] ...
  • Published In Odem [San Patricio County] ...
    • The Odem Review (from 1934)
    • The Odem Star (from 1929)
  • Published In Corpus Christi [Nueces County] ...
    • We know of 81 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Corpus Christi. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Corpus Christi
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Black Point. This extended list includes all the papers from Corpus Christi. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Black Point
  • Published In Skidmore [Bee County] ...
    • Skidmore Sentinel (from 1892)
      • The first year of publication was in 1892, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Skidmore Sentinel
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86090243
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14868701
    • The Skidmore Signal (from 1905)

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- Black Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Black Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.0870, Longitude: -97.2600       In this case, the coordinates for Black Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).