BlockMarkham, Illinois
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60428. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 11,661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMarkham fell from 12,508 to 11,661 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,508 | |
| 2020 | 11,661 | -847 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Markham in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Markham: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorton Plant Lime | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Brownell Improvement Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Markham City Dept. of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thornton Underground Mine No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thorton Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Markham in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | - | Multiple trees and power lines were reported down in Markham. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | - | A large swath of mainly tree damage occurred from the north side of Markham east northeast through the Phoenix area. Numerous medium size to large tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down between Interstate 80/294 to the south and Route 6 to the north. A few trees were snapped. Multiple houses were missing shingles and fascia near Dixie Highway between 167th Street and 165th Street. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Markham | - | A brief tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down near 169th Street and Crawford Avenue. The tornado produced tree damage along its path, which brought down power lines. A large pine tree was uprooted on Briargate Drive, which fell onto a house. The tornado ended just after this location, just south of 167th Street. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | - | A tree limb was blown down, blocking a lane on 167th Street, between California Avenue and Kedzie Avenue. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Markham | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Markham | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Park | 0.5 miles | 25 | |
| Hazel Crest | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| South Harvey | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Country Club Hills | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Midlothian | 2.5 miles | 25 | |
| Oak Forest | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Posen | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| West Harvey | 2.7 miles | 25 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Markham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q579017 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 413015. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.