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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Wilson 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 Wilson. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Wilson. Our list contains 53 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Wilson.

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 Wilson.  

Newspapers Neighboring Wilson ...

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

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

  • Published In Slaton [Lubbock County] ...
    • The Slaton Slatonite (from 1914)
    • The Slaton Times (from 1924)
    • The Slatonite (from 1911)
  • Published In Tahoka  ...
  • 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 Wilson. 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 Wilson
  • Published In Wolfforth [Lubbock County] ...
  • Published In Idalou [Lubbock County] ...
    • The Idalou Beacon (from 1951)
    • The Idalou Echo (from 1925)
  • Published In Lorenzo [Crosby County] ...
  • Published In Meadow [Terry County] ...
    • The Meadow Star (from 1936)
  • Published In Shallowater [Lubbock County] ...

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 from Point A (ie- Wilson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wilson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3193, Longitude: -101.7275       In this case, the coordinates for Wilson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).