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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Santa Maria 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 Santa Maria. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Santa Maria. Our list contains 14 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Santa Maria.

Newspapers Neighboring Santa Maria ...

The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Santa Maria.

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

  • Published In La Feria  ...
    • The La Feria News (from 1923)
  • Published In Mercedes [Hidalgo County] ...
    • La Verdad (from 1977)
      • Years of publication:  1977 to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the La Verdad
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083721
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18078051
    • Mercedes Enterprise (from 1908)
    • Mercedes News-Tribune (from 1929)
    • Mercedes Tribune (from 1914)
    • News-Tribune (from 19??)
    • The Enterprise (from 19??)
    • The Mercedes Enterprise (from 1956)
    • The Mercedes News (from 1923)
  • Published In Weslaco [Hidalgo County] ...
  • Published In Harlingen  ...
    • Harlingen Press (from 19??)
    • The Harlingen Star (from 1909)
    • Valley Morning Star (from 1929)

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- Santa Maria) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Santa Maria. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.0787, Longitude: -97.8494       In this case, the coordinates for Santa Maria have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).