Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Rockford.
Our newspaper information for Rockford 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 Rockford. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Rockford. Our list contains 50 papers that were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Rockford.
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 Rockford.
Newspapers Neighboring Rockford ...
The following newspapers were published within 12 miles [19.3 km] of Rockford.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Rockford.
- Published In Weston [Lewis County] ...
- The Democrat (from 1868)
- The Democrat (from 1868)
- The Independent (from 1894)
- The State Times (from 1893)
- The Weston Democrat (from 1875)
- The Weston Democrat (from 1875)
- The Weston Expositor (from 1865)
- The Weston Free Press (from 1915)
- The Weston Hawk-eye (from 1883)
- The Weston Independent (from 189?)
- The Weston Republican (from 1879)
- The Weston Republican (from 1908)
- The Weston Sentinel (from 1898)
- West Virginia State Journal (from 1863)
- Weston World (from 1885)
- Published In Clarksburg ...
- We know of 32 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Clarksburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Clarksburg
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of Rockford. This extended list includes all the papers from Clarksburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Rockford
- Published In Buckhannon [Upshur County] ...
- Buckhannon Banner (from 1876)
- Busy Bee (from 1884)
- Years of publication: 1884 to 1898
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Busy Bee
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86092371
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13291365
- North Western Observer (from 1852)
- The Buckhannon Delta And Knight Errant (from 1900)
- The Buckhannon Delta (from 1871)
- The Buckhannon Delta (from 1916)
- The Buckhannon News (from 1929)
- The Buckhannon Record (from 1925)
- The Knight-Errant (from 1896)
- The Record Delta (from 1977)
- The Republican-Delta (from 1929)
- The Upshur Republican (from 1901)
- The West Virginia Young Republican (from 1947)
- Upshur Record (from 1914)
- West Virginia Republican (from 1864)
- Published In Bridgeport ...
- Bridgeport Home And Bargain News (from 1952)
- Bridgeport Spotlight (from 1969)
- The Bridgeport News (from 1954)
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- Rockford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rockford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1365, Longitude: -80.3323 In this case, the coordinates for Rockford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |