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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Smyrna 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 Smyrna. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Smyrna. Our list contains 86 papers that were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> of Smyrna.

Newspapers Neighboring Smyrna ...

The following newspapers were published within 27 miles [43.5 km] of Smyrna.

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

  • Published In Emory  ...
    • Rains County Leader (from 1887)
    • Rains County Record (from 1887)
    • The News (from 18??)
    • The Rains County Sentinel (from 189?)
  • Published In Grand Saline [Van Zandt County] ...
  • Published In Wills Point [Van Zandt County] ...
  • Published In Myrtle Springs [Van Zandt County] ...
    • The Herald (from 1891)
      • The first year of publication was in 1891, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86089215
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14237897
  • Published In Quinlan [Hunt County] ...
  • Published In Cumby [Hopkins County] ...
  • Published In Canton [Van Zandt County] ...
  • Published In Elmo [Kaufman County] ...
    • The Elmo Beacon (from 187?)
  • Published In Quitman [Wood County] ...
  • Published In Mineola [Wood County] ...
  • Published In Sulphur Springs [Hopkins County] ...
  • Published In Van [Van Zandt County] ...
    • The Van Progress (from 1974)
    • Van Banner (from 1985)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...

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 from Point A (ie- Smyrna) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smyrna. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8490, Longitude: -95.8219       In this case, the coordinates for Smyrna have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).