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.
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
Wencl Kajer Farmsteadlisted 1980
New Market Hotel and Storelisted 1980
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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Prior Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | WAGON WHEEL |
| 22 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F1) | New Market | $50,000 | Sheds, 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 2001 | Tornado (F0) | New Market | - | Tornado touched down briefly in open field. No damage reported. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Market | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| August 2011 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New Market | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elko New Market | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Elko | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Eidswold | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Cedar Lake | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Credit River | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Patrick | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lydia | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Prior Lake | 10.4 miles | 12 |
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 Q2458023 | 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 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.






