Kemah
Kemah is a city on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The boardwalk is a popular destination for people in the Houston area. The best time to come if you want to relax is during the week, but if you have kids and want them to be able to play in the fountains and things, come on the weekends.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Mike Fisher, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 2,480 residents
- Description: city in Galveston County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Evergreen”, “Kemah, Texas”, and “Kemah, TX”
- Postal code: 77565
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kemah Boardwalk.
Kemah Boardwalk
Theme park
Photo: CharlesShirley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kemah Boardwalk is a 60-acre Texas Gulf Coast theme park in Kemah, Texas, approximately 30 miles southeast of Downtown Houston, Texas. The Boardwalk is built entirely along the shores of Galveston Bay and Clear Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seabrook and Clear Lake Shores.
Seabrook
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Seabrook is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, with some water surface area located within Chambers County. The population was 13,618 at the 2020 U.S. census.
Clear Lake Shores
Village
Clear Lake Shores is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States, located within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,258.
El Lago
Village
El Lago is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,090 at the 2020 census. El Lago has particular historical significance, as it sits on the site of one of the main hide-outs for the French pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte. El Lago is situated 2½ miles northwest of Kemah.
Kemah
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Galveston, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.5427° or 29° 32′ 34″ northLongitude
-95.0205° or 95° 1′ 14″ westPopulation
2,480Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)United Nations Location Code
US KEMOpen location code
76X6GXVH+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 151418385OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kemah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيما (تكساس)”
- Arabic: “كيما”
- Basque: “Kemah”
- Catalan: “Kemah”
- Cebuano: “Kemah”
- Chechen: “Кима”
- Chinese: “Kemah”
- Croatian: “Kemah”
- Danish: “Kemah”
- Dutch: “Kemah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيما”
- French: “Kemah”
- German: “Kemah”
- Gilaki: “کما”
- Haitian: “Kemah, Texas”
- Haitian: “Kemah”
- Hungarian: “Kemah”
- Irish: “Kemah”
- Italian: “Kemah”
- Korean: “키마”
- Ladin: “Kemah”
- Malagasy: “Kemah, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Kemah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kemah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kemah”
- Persian: “کیما، تگزاس”
- Persian: “کیما”
- Polish: “Kemah”
- Portuguese: “Kemah”
- Serbian: “Кима”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kemah, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kemah”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیما، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Kemah (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Kemah”
- Tatar: “Кима”
- Turkish: “Kemah, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Kemah”
- Ukrainian: “Кіма”
- Uzbek: “Kemah”
- Uzbek: “Кемаҳ”
- Vietnamese: “Kemah, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Kemah”
- Volapük: “Kemah”
- Welsh: “Kemah, Texas”
- Welsh: “Kemah”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kemah”. Photo: Mike Fisher, CC BY 2.0.