New Madrid, Missouri

New Madrid, Missouri
City
New Madrid, facing away from the Mississippi
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Location of New Madrid, Missouri
Coordinates: 36°35′16″N 89°33′02″W / 36.58778°N 89.55056°W / 36.58778; -89.55056
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	New Madrid
Area [1]
• Total	4.54 sq mi (11.75 km2)
• Land	4.50 sq mi (11.66 km2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.09 km2)
Elevation [2]	292 ft (89 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,787
• Density	619.20/sq mi (239.05/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP code	63869
Area code	573
FIPS code	29-52076[3]
GNIS feature ID	2395206[2]
Website	new-madrid.mo.us

New Madrid (/ˈmædrɪd/ MAD-rid; Spanish: Nueva Madrid) is a city in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,787 at the 2020 census. New Madrid is the county seat of New Madrid County.^[4] 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.

New Madrid was the epicenter of the very powerful 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes.