Markham
Markham is a census-designated place in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. Named in 1903 for Charles H. Markham, a railroad engineer for Southern Pacific, the town was founded in 1901 as Cortes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,080 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Matagorda County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Markham, Texas” and “Markham, TX”
- Postal code: 77456
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bay City.
Bay City
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.
Bay City is a small city in the Gulf Coast region of Texas. It's on SH-35, about two hours from Houston, at the Colorado River.
Markham
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Matagorda, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.96253° or 28° 57′ 45″ northLongitude
-96.06654° or 96° 3′ 60″ westPopulation
1,080Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MKHOpen location code
76W5XW7M+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 151349528OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Markham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماركهام”
- Basque: “Markham”
- Catalan: “Markham”
- Cebuano: “Markham”
- Chechen: “Маркем”
- Chinese: “Markham”
- Croatian: “Markham”
- Dutch: “Markham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماركهام”
- French: “Markham”
- Galician: “Markham”
- German: “Markham”
- Gilaki: “مارکهام”
- Haitian: “Markham, Texas”
- Haitian: “Markham”
- Irish: “Markham”
- Italian: “Markham”
- Japanese: “マーカム (テキサス州)”
- Japanese: “マーカム”
- Ladin: “Markham”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Markham”
- Persian: “مارکهام، تگزاس”
- Persian: “مارکهام”
- Polish: “Markham”
- Portuguese: “Markham”
- Serbian: “Маркам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Markham, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Markham”
- South Azerbaijani: “مارکهام، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Markham (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Markham”
- Swedish: “Markham, Texas”
- Swedish: “Markham”
- Tatar: “Маркем”
- Ukrainian: “Маркем”
- Vietnamese: “Markham, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Markham”
- Volapük: “Markham”
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