New Boston is an unincorporated community in central Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies in the southeast corner of Iowa, along

U.S. Highway 218 U.S. Highway 218 (US 218) is an original United States Highway that was created in 1926. Although technically a spur of U.S. Route 18, US 18, US 218 neither begins nor ends at US 18, but overlaps US 18 for near Charles C ...

and southwest of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County. New Boston is located nearby to the unincorporated communities of Argyle, Iowa and Charleston, Iowa. The community is part of the Fort Madison– Keokuk, IA- MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. There are no commercial establishments in New Boston, although this is the home of Liberty Baptist Church.

History

Founded in the 1800s, New Boston's population was 56 in 1902, and 26 in 1925. The population was 100 in 1940.

References

Unincorporated communities in Lee County, Iowa Unincorporated communities in Iowa Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area {{LeeCountyIA-geo-stub