New Market, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dallas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51646. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle. 385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Market fell from 415 to 385 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 | 415 | |
| 2020 | 385 | -30 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1940 USGS New Market quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS New Market quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Market in 2013, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Market: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
52 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Market in 52 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 29 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | 1 hurt, $40,000 | Three unsecured camper trailers were blown from their camp site into the lake. One minor injury reported. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F2) | New Market | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | New Market | $30,000 | Short tornado embedded within a large area of strong winds. Tornado tracked southeast through a cornfield before encountering a farmstead. It snapped and blew over trees in a grove just northwest of the farm which is where the EF1 damage occurred. It proceeded to destroy a hoop building on the farm and blew two empty grain bins off their foundations. Other tree damage occurred as well. The tornado then produced some tree damage in a grove of trees along Highway 2 before dissipating. |
| May 2001 | Hail | New Market | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F1) | New Market | $10,000 | Touched down in open country with intermittent track. Did some damage to a house east of Bedford. |
| September 2010 | Hail | New Market | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Market | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New Market | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | Trained spotter now reports hail has increased in size to golf balls since last report. |
| September 2010 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | New Market | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $3,000 | Estimated winds of 60 MPH along with penny size hail. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $3,000 | Tree limbs were downed by winds estimated of 60 MPH. |
| April 2006 | Hail | New Market | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $2,000 | Several tree limbs were downed by winds in New Market. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Market | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Market | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | New Market | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | New Market | - | Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2022 | Hail | New Market | - | Broken wind shields, hole sin siding and windows, and destruction of nearby crops on three different properties. Hail lasted for 20 minutes and accumulated into drifts, making it difficult to open door of home. Hail that drifted lingered for at least 12 hours. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | Social media report of at least half dollar sized hail that broke vehicle wind shields, house windows, skylight windows, and damaged house siding. Multiple large holes. Tree limb down on power line. Water over gravel road. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2018 | Hail | New Market | - | Trained spotter reported torrential rain and lots of quarter sized hail. |
| April 2018 | Hail | New Market | - | Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | County Sheriff received report of 60 to 70 mph winds about 4 miles north of New Market. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | New Market | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Public reported via social media estimated 5 inches of rainfall. Rainfall was beyond the capability of the rain gage. |
| August 2015 | Funnel Cloud | New Market | - | Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud overhead moving southeast. |
| August 2015 | Hail | New Market | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| October 2014 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Rainfall of 1.81 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Rainfall from storm over the past 24 hours was 3.39 inches. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Rainfall measurement over the past 24 hours was 1.82 inches. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 1.35 inches. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | New Market | - | Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.38 inches. |
| April 2023 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | 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.
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 Q1927702 | 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 459481. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






