Do you know of New Market ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Market. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with New Market.
We found mention of New Market as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Vigo County, Indiana.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1840 and closed in 1855.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named New Market ...
We found 26 communities that share the name New Market.
There are two communities within Indiana that are also named New Market.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Market [Clark County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Market [Montgomery County].
- Clark County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Market [Madison County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of New Market [Sussex County].
- Georgia
- Monroe County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of New Market [Monroe County].
- Illinois
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of New Market [Gallatin County].
- Iowa
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of New Market [Taylor County].
- Kentucky
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of New Market [Marion County].
- Maryland
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of New Market [Frederick County].
- Minnesota
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of New Market [Scott County].
- Missouri
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Market [Platte County].
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Market [Polk County].
- New Jersey
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of New Market [Middlesex County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of New Market [Niagara County].
- North Carolina
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Market [Randolph County].
- Ohio
- Geauga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Market [Geauga County].
- Highland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Market [Highland County].
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Market [Lake County].
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Market [York County].
- South Carolina
- Abbeville County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of New Market [Abbeville County].
- Darlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of New Market [Darlington County].
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of New Market [Greenwood County].
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of New Market [Williamsburg County].
- Tennessee
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Market [Jefferson County].
- Virginia
- Prince William County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of New Market [Prince William County].
- Shenandoah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of New Market [Shenandoah County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Market ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Market:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Vigo County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Vigo County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that New Market could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |