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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Petty 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 Petty. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Petty. Our list contains 54 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Petty.

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 Petty.  

Newspapers Neighboring Petty ...

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

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

  • Published In Meadow [Terry County] ...
    • The Meadow Star (from 1936)
  • Published In Tahoka  ...
  • Published In Wolfforth [Lubbock County] ...
  • Published In Brownfield [Terry County] ...
  • Published In Lubbock [Lubbock County] ...
    • We know of 43 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lubbock. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Lubbock
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Petty. This extended list includes all the papers from Lubbock. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Petty
  • Published In Slaton [Lubbock County] ...
    • The Slaton Slatonite (from 1914)
    • The Slaton Times (from 1924)
    • The Slatonite (from 1911)
  • Published In Shallowater [Lubbock County] ...
  • Published In Levelland [Hockley 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Petty) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Petty. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.2831, Longitude: -101.9807       In this case, the coordinates for Petty have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).