The place where today is located the city of Novo Acordo was a farm, cattle, belonging to Dona Antônia Macedo Pires, occupying lands of the State of Goiás. In 1947 there came José de Sousa Dourado and brothers, carrying large stock of goods, where they settled in the region because not only be exploited by miners of precious stones, but also inhabited mostly by cattle farmers in the area and there is no commercial firm that would meet their most pressing needs. Therefore, the fixation of the local commercial firm, led the confluence of the population that has little by little the focus around the building of the said firm of Dourados. Hence the city originated with the creation of a private school as a teacher with Mr. Manuel Silvério Dourado, father of the firm's owners. With this initiative is that many inhabitants of the region moved to the village in order to educate their children. At that time the town belonged to the municipality of Porto Nacional, then jammed in the district of Ponte Alta. With the development of the villages he was elevated to the rank of District 1953, broke away from the Ponte Alta District. In 1958, pursuant to State Law No. 2130, was elevated to city, giving its installation on 1 January 1959. The official area of the city of Novo Acordo is currently 2.669km² and in the 2010 census, listed with 3.762 inhabitants, with a population growth of around 6.03% compared to the census of 2000.
