THE NEW MARKET LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains setting.
New Market township has 26.7 square miles of land in Highland County. Its Census reference point is in Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
New Market and Highland County
New Market is associated with Highland County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
New Market by land and water
The Census records 0.01 square miles of water within New Market, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.8 percentage points lower than the 0.8% recorded for Highland County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, New Market township has 1.2 times the land area of nearby Hamer township (22.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

