# Elko New Market *City in Scott County, Minnesota, formed by the merger of Elko and New Market* Elko New Market is a city in [[Scott County, Minnesota]]. It was created when the neighboring cities of Elko and New Market combined. Voters in both cities approved the merger on March 21, 2006, and it took effect on January 1, 2007.[^1] The 2020 census put its population at 4,846.[^1] In the project's record, the city appears in one at-issue item. That item lists Elko New Market among the communities whose wastewater goes to the Metropolitan Council's [[Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant]].[^2] The item rests on a single self-published Metropolitan Council source. The record does not include the Council's own filings on the plant.[^2] ## What The city joins the former municipalities of Elko and New Market.[^1] It has one public school, and Eagle View Elementary is listed under education.[^1] Elko Speedway is in the city. The track is a three-eighths-mile asphalt oval whose events include the ASA Midwest Tour and the ARCA Menards Series' Shore Lunch 250.[^1] The New Market Hotel and Store is on the National Register of Historic Places, and a marker in the city commemorates the Big Woods of south-central Minnesota.[^1] ## When Elko began in 1858 as a railway village. New Market was established at about the same time under the name Jackson. It later took its name from the town near Cambridge, England. The [[Minnesota Historical Society]] describes both names as common for towns of that period.[^1] On March 21, 2006, each city approved the merger by referendum. The combined city of Elko New Market came into existence on January 1, 2007.[^1] The Wikipedia summary gives 2006 as the founding year, which is the year of the vote. The merger's effective date was January 1, 2007.[^1] ## Where Elko New Market lies on Interstate 35, roughly halfway between [[Minneapolis]] and Faribault. It is part of the exurban ring south of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region, and Scott County Road 2 also serves it.[^1] The [[United States Census Bureau]] gives its area as 3.36 square miles (8.70 km²), with no water area.[^1] Its climate is classed as warm-summer humid continental, with characteristics of the hot-summer type (Köppen Dfa).[^1] ## How many The 2020 census recorded 4,846 residents with a median age of 34.4. Of these, 33.0% were under 18 and 6.6% were 65 or older.[^1] The city had 1,538 households: 53.8% had children under 18, and 69.8% were married-couple households. Of its 1,559 housing units, 1.3% stood vacant.[^1] The census classed all residents as living in rural areas.[^1] The 2010 census counted 4,110 people in 1,259 households, 1,064 of them families, and 1,328 housing units.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue record includes item AI-Dakota-070, drawn from the *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* of September 2, 2026. The item states that the Metropolitan Council's Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in 1979 and has since been doubled. It also states that the plant carries 24 million gallons a day for [[Apple Valley]], Elko New Market, [[Empire Township]], [[Farmington]], [[Rosemount]] and part of [[Lakeville]].[^2] The item notes that the plant is owned by an appointed regional body. It sets that ownership beside Dakota County's departure from the regional transit board, observing that the county did not also leave the regional sewer system.[^2] The item's stated point is that the region's leverage over local land use is infrastructural rather than advisory.[^2] The item appears under a Dakota County heading, but Elko New Market itself is in Scott County.[^1] The item rests on one self-published source from metrocouncil.org. The record does not include the Council's own filings on the plant's capacity or service area, so the figures are the item's statement rather than independently established fact.[^2] ## In the Minnesota record ### Where - Elko New Market is in Scott County and is served by Interstate 35 and Scott County Road 2.[^1] - The at-issue record lists the city among the communities served by the Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant, which it describes as owned by the Metropolitan Council.[^2] - The [[Metropolitan Governance Task Force]], a legislative commission on metropolitan governance, issued its final report on February 1, 2024. The record does not set out how its findings bear on the Empire plant.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia contributors, *Elko New Market, Minnesota* (revision 1378095612, retrieved October 27, 2026) — location, history and merger dates, geography, climate, 2010 and 2020 census figures, school, speedway and historic listings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elko_New_Market,_Minnesota [^2]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix*, item AI-Dakota-070 (September 2, 2026), resting on one self-published metrocouncil.org source and anchored to The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). This note supports the item's statement on the Empire plant's 1979 construction, doubling, 24 million gallons a day and service area. The anchor is the item's cited context and does not itself state the plant figures. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^3]: Legislative Coordinating Commission, *Metropolitan Governance Task Force Final Report* (February 1, 2024) — date and issuance of the task force's final report. https://www.lcc.mn.gov/mgtf/report/Final-MGTF-Report