Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Dickinson.
Our newspaper information for Dickinson is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 5 papers that were published in the immediate area of Dickinson. In addition, the list contains another 30 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Dickinson. In total, we've identified 35 papers within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Dickinson.
Newspapers Published In Dickinson ...
We know of 5 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Dickinson:
- Galveston County Press (from 1940)
- The Mainland Messenger (from 1913)
- The News Citizen (from 1938)
- The Weekend News Citizen (from 1960)
- The Weekly News (from 1989)
Newspapers Neighboring Dickinson ...
The following newspapers were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of Dickinson.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Dickinson.
- Published In League City ...
- League City News (from 1911)
- Texas Coast Promoter (from 1896)
- The League City Herald (from 1907)
- The League City Leader (from 1914)
- Published In Hitchcock ...
- The Storm Drift (from 1900)
- Published In La Marque ...
- The La Marque Times (from 1953)
- The Mainland Times (from 1959)
- The Mainland Times (from 1947)
- Published In Friendswood ...
- Pearland Reporter (from 19??)
- The Friendswood Journal (from 1972)
- The Friendswood News
- Published In Texas City ...
- Galveston County Times (from 1932)
- Texas City Daily Times (from 1913)
- Texas City Star (from 1914)
- Texas City Sun (from 19??)
- Texas City Times (from 1909)
- Texas City Times (from 1915)
- Texas Coast News (from 1895)
- The first year of publication was in 1895, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Texas Coast News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86089905
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 14563481
- The Daily Sun (from 1964)
- The Galveston County Sun (from 19??)
- The Provost Guard & Texas City Messenger (from 1913)
- The Provost Guard (from 1914)
- The Texas City Star & Times (from 1914)
- The Texas City Weekly Sun (from 1915)
- Published In Alvin [Brazoria County] ...
- Alvin News (from 1890)
- Gulf Coast Review (from 1929)
- The Alvin Advocate (from 1911)
- The Alvin Sun (from 1890)
- The Commoner (from 1899)
- The County News (from 19??)
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dickinson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dickinson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.4545, Longitude: -95.0572 In this case, the coordinates for Dickinson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |