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Madera County

Madera

Madera is a city in, and the county seat of, , located in the of . Founded in 1876 as a timber town at the terminus of a major logging flume, Madera's early economy was built on the lumber industry, which flourished until the Great Depression.
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  • Type: City with 65,700 residents
  • Description: county seat of Madera County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Madera, CA” and “Madera, California”
  • Postal codes: 93637-93639

Places of Interest

Highlights include Madera Community Hospital and Madera High School.

Hospital
is a not-for-profit community health resource and is not associated with any other or health system. The hospital is locally governed by a board of trustees which provides governance and oversight.

School
is the first school and original high school in the central city of Madera, California, serving students since 1894. The school colors are royal blue & white and its mascot is the coyote.

School
is a high school located in Madera, California and is part of the Madera Unified School District. Previously functioning as the second campus of the town's other high school, Madera High, the school officially became Madera's second official high school in August 2006.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parkwood and Madera Acres.

Locality
is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is part of the Madera Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,307 at the 2020 census.

Locality
is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is part of the Madera Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,162 at the 2020 census, virtually unchanged from 2010.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , . It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 3 miles southeast of Madera, at an elevation of 272 feet.

Madera

Latitude
36.9623° or 36° 57′ 44″ north
Longitude
-120.0595° or 120° 3′ 34″ west
Population
65,700
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
IATA airport code
MAE
United Nations Location Code
US MAE
Open location code
848XXW6R+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1270688265
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5369568
Wiki­data ID
Q851000
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Madera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماديرا”
  • Armenian: “Մադերա”
  • Basque: “Madera”
  • Belarusian: “Мадэра”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадейра”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадера”
  • Catalan: “Madera”
  • Cebuano: “Madera”
  • Chechen: “Мадера”
  • Chinese: “Madera”
  • Chinese: “馬德拉”
  • Chinese: “馬德拉市”
  • Chinese: “马德拉”
  • Croatian: “Madera”
  • Czech: “Madera”
  • Danish: “Madera”
  • Dutch: “Madera”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماديرا”
  • Esperanto: “Madera”
  • Esperanto: “Madero”
  • Estonian: “Madera”
  • French: “Madera”
  • German: “Madera”
  • Gilaki: “مادرا”
  • Haitian: “Madera, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Madera”
  • Hebrew: “מאדרה”
  • Hungarian: “Madera”
  • Irish: “Madera”
  • Italian: “Madera”
  • Japanese: “マデラ”
  • Korean: “마데라”
  • Ladin: “Madera”
  • Malagasy: “Madera, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Madera”
  • Malayalam: “മഡേറ”
  • Mazanderani: “مادرا (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “مادرا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Madera”
  • Navajo: “Tsineheeshjíʼí”
  • Newari: “मादेरा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “मादेरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Madera”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madera”
  • Norwegian: “Madera”
  • Pampanga: “Madera, California”
  • Pampanga: “Madera”
  • Persian: “مادرا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مادرا”
  • Polish: “Madera”
  • Portuguese: “Madera”
  • Russian: “Мадера”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Madera”
  • Serbian: “Madera”
  • Serbian: “Мадера”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Madera, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Madera”
  • Silesian: “Madera”
  • Slovak: “Madera”
  • Slovenian: “Madera”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مئیدرا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Madera (California)”
  • Spanish: “Madera”
  • Swedish: “Madera, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Madera”
  • Tagalog: “Madera, California”
  • Tagalog: “Madera”
  • Tatar: “Мадера”
  • Turkish: “Madera, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Madera”
  • Ukrainian: “Мадера”
  • Urdu: “مادیرا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Madera”
  • Uzbek: “Мадера”
  • Volapük: “Madera”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Madera, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Madera”
  • Welsh: “Madera”
  • “Madera”

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