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New Market, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in New Market Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55020. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

New Market within Scott County

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Market between 2007 and 2013, burning about 108 acres 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeWAGON WHEEL
22 March 2007Debris and open burning100 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Market in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Tornado (F1)New Market$50,000Sheds, outbuildings and a barn down. This was the fifth and last tornado from this particular mesocyclone that produced its first tornado in Swift County 9 N Kerkhoven at 1427.
May 2001Tornado (F0)New Market-Tornado touched down briefly in open field. No damage reported.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Market-Large tree limbs down.
August 2011HailNew Market-no account filed
July 2010HailNew Market-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Market-no account filed
August 2006HailNew Market-no account filed
August 2006HailNew Market-no account filed
April 2003HailNew Market-no account filed
May 2002HailNew Market-no account filed
May 2002HailNew Market-no account filed
July 2002HailNew Market-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Market-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Elko New Market1.5 miles11
Elko1.5 miles11
Eidswold3.8 miles11
Cedar Lake4.7 miles11
Credit River7.1 miles12
Saint Patrick8.0 miles11
Lydia9.6 miles12
Prior Lake10.4 miles12

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 MarketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2458023The 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 648514. 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.