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Welcome to New Market ...

So far, we found very little information about New Market. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added New Market to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with New Market, please Contact Us.

New Market would have been located within present day Gallatin County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of New Market, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857.

While the community is gone, the present day location for New Market is 390 feet [119 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where New Market was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where New Market was located: 618 & 730<4>

Communities Also Named New Market ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named New Market - they are located in Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri (2), New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio (3), Pennsylvania, South Carolina (4), Tennessee and Virginia (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for New Market.

Communities near New Market ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near New Market.

  • Harrisburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Eldorado
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Morganfield
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Norris City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Shawneetown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Uniontown
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Uniontown is located in Union County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
  • Equality
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • New Haven
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Raleigh
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Omaha
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around New Market. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for New Market.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of New Market. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around New Market.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around New Market. See our Newspapers Page for New Market.

Adding New Market to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of New Market in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for New Market was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the New Market post office opened in 1857. The New Market post office closed in 1871.

For more details, see References and Mentions for New Market.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about New Market, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Gallatin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around New Market - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 618 code has been Overlayed with the 730 area code. New phone numbers in the New Market area will be assigned with one of these codes: 618 or 730. As a result, placing a call in the New Market area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/