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New Madrid County
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county in Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- Founded
- October 1, 1812
- Named after
- Madrid, Spain
- Seat
- New Madrid
- Largest city
- Portageville
- Total
- 697 sq mi (1,810 km )
- Land
- 675 sq mi (1,750 km )
- Water
- 22 sq mi (57 km ) 3.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 15,086
- Density
- 24.3/sq mi (9.40/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
New Madrid County | New Madrid, MO - Official Website
new-madrid.mo.us →Link to the official site · 858 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- New Madrid
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Missouri
- Contains
- New Madrid
- Capital
- New Madrid
- Population
- 16434
- Area
- 1808
- Shares border with
- Dunklin County
- Official website
- www.new-madrid.mo.us/116/New-Madrid-County
- Image
- New Madrid County Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 7281
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- water as percent of area
- 3.1
- native label
- New Madrid County
- Commons category
- New Madrid County, Missouri
- topic's main category
- Category:New Madrid County, Missouri
- inception
- 1812-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from New Madrid County, Missouri
- per capita income
- 22513
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
New Madrid County (/ˈmædrɪd/ MAD-rid; Spanish: Condado de Nueva Madrid; French: Comté de New Madrid) is a county located in the Bootheel of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,434. The largest city is Portageville and county seat is New Madrid, located on the northern side of the Kentucky Bend in the Mississippi River, where it has formed an oxbow around an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky. This feature has also been known as New Madrid Bend or Madrid Bend, for the city.
The county was officially organized on October 1, 1812, encompassing most of present-day Arkansas. Named after Nuevo Madrid, a district located in the region, the area was under Spanish rule following France's cession of Louisiana after being defeated in the Seven Years' War. The Spanish named the district after Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Madrid County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.