New Market is a census designated place (CDP) in northern Platte County, Missouri, United States. It lies within the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 88 at the 2020 census.
The community is located on Missouri Route 371 about 1.5 miles south of the Platte–Buchanan county line. Dearborn is two miles to the northeast across U.S. Route 71 and Bee Creek flows past the west side of the community.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 26
History New Market was originally named Jacksonville, named by Jacob Adamson, a Tennesseean and admirer of Andrew Jackson. A post office called New Market was established in 1839 after Adamson learned that Jacksonville was taken, and it remained in operation until 1959.
Demographics
New Market was incorporated until the 1940s. It did not appear thereafter until it was listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census. A population estimate from the 1870s is about 200.
+New Market, Missouri – Racial and ethnic compositionRace / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)Pop 20202020White alone (NH) 85 96.59%Black or African American alone (NH) 0 0.00%Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)00.00%Asian alone (NH) 00.00%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)00.00%Other race alone (NH)0 0.00%Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) 3 3.41%Hispanic or Latino (any race)0 0.00%Total88 100.00%
Education It is in the North Platte County R-I School District. - Text list
See also
List of census-designated places in Missouri
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