Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Sam Houston.
Our newspaper information for Sam Houston 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 Sam Houston. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Sam Houston. Our list contains 16 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Sam Houston.
Newspapers Neighboring Sam Houston ...
The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Sam Houston.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Sam Houston.
- Published In Shepherd [San Jacinto County] ...
- San Jacinto County News (from 19??)
- San Jacinto News-Times (from 19??)
- Sentinel (from 1977)
- Years of publication: 1977 to 1978
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Sentinel
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93068215
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27739900
- The Shepherd Citizen (from 1985)
- The Shepherd Sentinel (from 1978)
- Published In Dayton ...
- The Dayton News (from 19??)
- The Daytonite (from 1909)
- The Illustrated Press Of Liberty County (from 19??)
- Published In Goodrich [Polk County] ...
- The East Texas Eye (from 1968)
- Published In Sour Lake [Hardin County] ...
- The Oil City Visitor (from 1908)
- Published In Livingston [Polk County] ...
- East Texas Pinery (from 1882)
- Lake Livingston Progress (from 19??)
- Polk County Enterprise (from 1903)
- The Livingston Local (from 18??)
- The Local Progress (from 18??)
- The Polk County Banner (from 1877)
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- Sam Houston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sam Houston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3252, Longitude: -94.8085 In this case, the coordinates for Sam Houston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |