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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Pettit 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 Pettit. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Pettit. Our list contains 17 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Pettit.

Newspapers Neighboring Pettit ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Pettit.

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

  • Published In Levelland  ...
  • Published In Littlefield [Lamb County] ...
  • Published In Anton  ...
    • Anton News (from 1925)
    • The Star (from 1960)
      • Years of publication:  1960 to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Star
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86090639
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15132359
  • Published In Sudan [Lamb County] ...
    • Sudan Beacon News (from 19??)
    • The Sudan News (from 1924)
  • Published In Meadow [Terry County] ...
    • The Meadow Star (from 1936)
  • Published In Shallowater [Lubbock County] ...

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pettit) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pettit. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6970, Longitude: -102.5246       In this case, the coordinates for Pettit have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).