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New Madrid
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city in and county seat of New Madrid County, Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- County
- New Madrid
- Total
- 4.54 sq mi (11.75 km )
- Land
- 4.50 sq mi (11.66 km )
- Water
- 0.035 sq mi (0.09 km )
- Elevation
- 292 ft (89 m)
- Density
- 619.1/sq mi (239.05/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Area code
- 573/235
- Fips code
- 29-52076
- Website
- new-madrid.mo.us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
New Madrid (/ˈmædrɪd/ MAD-rid; Spanish: Nueva Madrid) is a city in and the county seat of New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,787 at the 2020 census. The city is located 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Cairo, Illinois, and north of an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, across the Mississippi River.
The town is on the north side of the Kentucky Bend in the Mississippi River, which is also known as "New Madrid Bend" or "Madrid Bend." The river curves in an oxbow around an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky. Scientists expect the river eventually to cut across the neck of the peninsula and make a more direct channel, leaving the Kentucky territory as an island.
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