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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Smyer 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 Smyer. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Smyer. Our list contains 56 papers that were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Smyer.

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 Smyer.  

Newspapers Neighboring Smyer ...

The following newspapers were published within 28 miles [45.1 km] of Smyer.

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

  • Published In Wolfforth [Lubbock County] ...
  • Published In Levelland  ...
  • Published In Shallowater [Lubbock 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 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 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Smyer. 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 Smyer
  • Published In Meadow [Terry County] ...
    • The Meadow Star (from 1936)
  • Published In Abernathy [Hale County] ...
  • Published In Littlefield [Lamb County] ...
  • Published In Brownfield [Terry County] ...
  • Published In Idalou [Lubbock County] ...
    • The Idalou Beacon (from 1951)
    • The Idalou Echo (from 1925)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Smyer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smyer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5873, Longitude: -102.1634       In this case, the coordinates for Smyer have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).