Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Jefferson
- Named after
- Netherlands
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Total
- 6.05 sq mi (15.67 km )
- Land
- 5.92 sq mi (15.34 km )
- Water
- 0.13 sq mi (0.33 km )
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4.0 m)
- Density
- 2,932/sq mi (1,132.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-50580
- U s routes
- FM 365
- Website
- www .ci .nederland .tx .us
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Named after
- Netherlands
- Official name
- Nederland
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 18856
- Area
- 15.116383
- Elevation
- 5
- Official website
- www.ci.nederland.tx.us
- Households
- 6761
- Dialing code
- 409
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- Commons category
- Nederland, Texas
- postal code
- 77627
- inception
- 1897-00-00
- P8168
- Olesya Forsheva
- water as percent of area
- 2.1934
- different from
- Nederland
- per capita income
- 36316
- IPA transcription
- ˈniːdərlənd
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Encyclopedic overview
Nederland (/ˈniːdərlənd/ NEE-dər-lənd) is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,856 at the 2020 census.
The city was settled in 1897 along what became Boston Avenue and was incorporated in 1940. It was settled by Dutch immigrants on land sold by the Kansas City Southern Railway. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area. Nederland is also a part of an area known as "the Golden Triangle", which comprises Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange. The city is adjacent to the Jack Brooks Regional Airport.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nederland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.