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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Rainbow 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 Rainbow. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rainbow. Our list contains 78 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Rainbow.

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 Rainbow.  

Newspapers Neighboring Rainbow ...

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

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

  • Published In Glen Rose  ...
  • Published In Granbury [Hood County] ...
  • Published In Tolar [Hood County] ...
  • Published In Walnut Springs [Bosque County] ...
  • Published In Godley [Johnson County] ...
  • Published In Bluff Dale [Erath County] ...
  • Published In Chapin [Hood County] ...
  • Published In Morgan [Bosque County] ...
    • The Morgan News (from 1889)
      • The first year of publication was in 1889, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Morgan News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083892
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18186910
  • Published In Cleburne [Johnson County] ...
    • We know of 38 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Cleburne. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Cleburne
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Rainbow. This extended list includes all the papers from Cleburne. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rainbow
  • Published In Rio Vista [Johnson County] ...
  • Published In Blum [Hill County] ...
  • Published In Iredell [Bosque County] ...
    • Iredell Times
      • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Iredell Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87090782
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16707148
    • The Iredell Index (from 1901)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Published In Joshua [Johnson County] ...
    • Published In Meridian [Bosque County] ...
    • Published In Hico [Hamilton County] ...
    • Published In Lipan [Hood County] ...
    • Published In Stephenville [Erath County] ...
    • Published In Burleson [Johnson County] ...
    • Published In Aledo [Parker County] ...
      • Aledo News (from 1976)
      • Aristocrat (from 19??)
      • Community News (from 1985)
      • Community (from 1984)
        • Years of publication:  1984 to 1985
        • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
        • Catalog Card for the Community
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN84001762
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 11351122
      • Weekly Express
        • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in ????
        • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
        • Catalog Card for the Weekly Express
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083406
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17894076
    • Published In Alvarado [Johnson County] ...
      • Alvarado Bulletin (from 1881)
      • Alvarado Signal (from 18??)
      • Alvarado Weekly Bulletin (from 1882)

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- Rainbow) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rainbow. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2654, Longitude: -97.7142       In this case, the coordinates for Rainbow have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).