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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Point 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 West Point. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Point. Our list contains 43 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of West Point.

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 West Point.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Point ...

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

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

  • Published In Brownfield [Terry County] ...
  • Published In Meadow [Terry County] ...
    • The Meadow Star (from 1936)
  • Published In Tahoka  ...
  • Published In Wolfforth [Lubbock County] ...
  • Published In Slaton [Lubbock County] ...
    • The Slaton Slatonite (from 1914)
    • The Slaton Times (from 1924)
    • The Slatonite (from 1911)
  • Published In Lamesa [Dawson County] ...
  • 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 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of West Point. 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 West Point

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- West Point) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.1668, Longitude: -102.0499       In this case, the coordinates for West Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).