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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Las Vegas. Our list contains 9 papers that were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Las Vegas.

Newspapers Neighboring Las Vegas ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km] of Las Vegas.

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

  • Published In Asherton  ...
  • Published In Cotulla [La Salle County] ...
    • La Salle's Isonomy (from 18??)
    • The Cotulla Record
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Cotulla Record
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083547
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17973185
    • The Cotulla Times (from 188?)
  • Published In Dilley [Frio County] ...
  • Published In Carrizo Springs  ...
    • South Texas Star (from 19??)
    • The Javelin (from 1889)
    • The Mini-News (from 19??)
  • Published In Crystal City [Zavala County] ...

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Las Vegas) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Las Vegas. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.5480, Longitude: -99.4898       In this case, the coordinates for Las Vegas have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).