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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Mayer 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 Mayer. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Mayer. Our list contains 52 papers that were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Mayer.

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 Mayer.  

Newspapers Neighboring Mayer ...

The following newspapers were published within 26 miles [41.8 km] of Mayer.

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

  • Published In Amarillo  ...
    • We know of 44 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Amarillo. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Amarillo
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> of Mayer. This extended list includes all the papers from Amarillo. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Mayer
  • Published In Panhandle [Carson County] ...
    • Carson County Advocate (from 1892)
    • The Panhandle Herald (from 1887)
  • Published In Canyon [Randall County] ...
  • Published In Claude [Armstrong County] ...
    • The Claude Argus (from 1890)
      • The first year of publication was in 1890, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Claude Argus
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86090969
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15300262
    • The Claude News (from 1891)
  • Published In Wildorado [Oldham 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- Mayer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mayer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2620, Longitude: -101.7382       In this case, the coordinates for Mayer have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).