Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oakbrook.
Our newspaper information for Oakbrook 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 Oakbrook. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Oakbrook. Our list contains 55 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Oakbrook.
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 Oakbrook.
Newspapers Neighboring Oakbrook ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Oakbrook.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Oakbrook.
- Published In Parkersburg ...
- We know of 46 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Parkersburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Parkersburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Oakbrook. This extended list includes all the papers from Parkersburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Oakbrook
- Published In Belpre [Washington County] ...
- Published In Elizabeth [Wirt County] ...
- The Elizabeth Gazette (from 1867)
- The Elizabeth Messenger (from 1886)
- The Kanawha News (from 1893)
- The West Virginia Transcript (from 1883)
- The Wirt County Democrat (from 1868)
- The Wirt County Mentor (from 1873)
- Wirt County Journal (from 1908)
- Published In Torch [Athens County] ...
- The Torch Light (from 1886)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oakbrook) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakbrook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1806, Longitude: -81.5207 In this case, the coordinates for Oakbrook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |