Markham, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tidehaven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77456. The Survey maps it on the Markham quadrangle. 908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMarkham fell from 1,138 to 908 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,138 | |
| 2010 | 1,082 | -56 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 908 | -174 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Markham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Markham quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Markham in 2017, burning about 102 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH PILE |
| 2 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 January 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Markham in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Markham | $1,000,000 | Five to seven houses with major roof damage, one trailer destroyed, several trees and light poles down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | $8,000 | A couple of vehicle awnings blown down. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Markham | $7,000 | Lake View, Blue Jay and Oak Drive roads under water off of FM 1468. |
| January 2006 | Hail | Markham | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail between Bay City and Blessing. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Markham | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Markham | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Markham | - | Tree limbs were reported down and there was some roof damage near the intersection of 6th Street and Avenue F. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Markham | - | No damage; brief touchdown. |
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.
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 Q969936 | 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 1362182. 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.
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.





