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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.

Markham within Matagorda County

Population over time

3 figures

Markham 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,138
20101,082-56 (-5%)
2020908-174 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2017

Regional 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 burning6
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH PILE
2 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 January 2017Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 January 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 January 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 January 2017Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Matagorda County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1995Tornado (F0)Markham$1,000,000Five to seven houses with major roof damage, one trailer destroyed, several trees and light poles down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarkham$8,000A couple of vehicle awnings blown down.
May 2004Flash FloodMarkham$7,000Lake View, Blue Jay and Oak Drive roads under water off of FM 1468.
January 2006HailMarkham$5,000Golf ball size hail between Bay City and Blessing.
March 2003HailMarkham$4,000no account filed
June 2004HailMarkham$3,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMarkham-Tree limbs were reported down and there was some roof damage near the intersection of 6th Street and Avenue F.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Markham-No damage; brief touchdown.

Every storm recorded in Matagorda County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Buckeye4.6 miles8
Clemville4.7 miles8
Bay City5.3 miles7
Elmaton6.5 miles8
Midfield7.7 miles8
Ashby9.6 miles8
Rymers9.7 miles8
Van Vleck10.1 miles10

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 MarkhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969936The 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.