New Market, Alabama
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. It stands on Hester Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle. 1,543 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.
On record in New Market
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 4 records
New Market Historic Districtlisted 2004
New Market Presbyterian Churchlisted 1988
New Market United Methodist Churchlisted 1990
Whitman-Cobb Houselisted 1982
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Five Oaks, Winchester Pike, New Marketfederal building survey, 11 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresNew Market fell from 1,597 to 1,543 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,597 | |
| 2020 | 1,543 | -54 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of New Market between 1997 and 2014, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Smoking | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL |
| 17 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | MAZEVILLE RD, AL |
| 4 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 749 ARNOLD ROAD, AL |
| 3 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 431 WINCHESTER ROAD, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Market in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Tornado (F1) | New Market | $110,000 | Trees were down in the New Market area, this damaged several homes in the area. One home had major damage and four homes had minor roof damage. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $30,000 | One barn was totally destroyed and one barn partially destroyed near New Market. Several large trees and power lines were also blown down. Trees were also blown down in Hazel Green. |
| March 1996 | Hail | New Market | $12,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down along Winchester road. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $10,000 | A home in New Market was damaged when a large tree was blown over onto it. |
| May 1998 | Hail | New Market | $10,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in New Market. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $3,000 | Several trees were snapped at a BBQ restaurant. |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Market | $3,000 | Golf ball size hail fell in New Market. |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Market | $3,000 | Quarter size to one and one half inch diameter size hail was observed in and around the city of New Market. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $3,000 | A few large trees and power lines were blown down near New Market. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $1,000 | Social media photo indicated a tree was knocked down and a trampoline flipped over onto a fence at a residence in New Market. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $1,000 | Large hardwood tree branches were broken. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a road in New Market. Time estimated. |
| June 2011 | Hail | New Market | - | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| March 2009 | Hail | New Market | - | Quarter sized hail was reported to the media by the public. Photo verification of the hail is noted. |
| April 2008 | Hail | New Market | - | A severe thunderstorm produced nickel size hail just west of New Market near New Market Road. |
| August 2008 | Hail | New Market | - | Nickel size hail fell in the New Market area. |
| April 2006 | Hail | New Market | - | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| May 2006 | Hail | New Market | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| February 2005 | Hail | New Market | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | A tree was blown down at a residence along Hurricane Road. |
| March 2003 | Hail | New Market | - | penny size hail reported. |
| March 2003 | Hail | New Market | - | Nickel size hail reported. |
| May 2003 | Hail | New Market | - | golf ball hail reported |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | a few trees down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | a few trees and power lines down. |
| February 2000 | Hail | New Market | - | Dime size hail fell in Deposit. |
| March 1998 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fannings Crossing | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hillsboro | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Union Grove | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Buckhorn | 3.3 miles | 24 | |
| Mint Spring | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Plevna | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Sulphur Springs | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Walnut Grove | 4.2 miles | 20 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on New Market | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q638180 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155175. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









