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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for West Prairie 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 Prairie. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Prairie. Our list contains 136 papers that were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of West Prairie.

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 Prairie.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Prairie ...

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

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

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 Prairie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Prairie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4666, Longitude: -91.0226       In this case, the coordinates for West Prairie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).