Tupman, California
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93276. The Survey maps it on the Tupman quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1910 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresTupman grew from 161 to 177 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 161 | |
| 2020 | 177 | +16 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000
- 1912 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1929 USGS Coles Levee quadrangle1:31680
- 1933 USGS Tupman quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Buttonwillow quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tupman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Taft quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tupman between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 0262 |
| 17 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 0319 |
| 12 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 0035 |
| 9 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | SHORT |
| 8 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Central California District | ELK HILLS |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Central California District | COURSE 2 |
| 30 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 700 acres | Central California District | TWO |
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 0214 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tupman in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupman | $50,000 | California Highway Patrol reported downed power poles and power lines near Interstate 5 just south of Stockdale Highway 1SE of Buttonwillow. The downed power lines caused brush fires. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Tupman | - | California Highway Patrol reported the intersection of SR 43 and Panama Lane was completely flooded. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Tupman | - | California Highway Patrol reported a small mudslide blocking the southbound lane of Tupman Road north of SR 119. |
| October 2021 | Flood | Tupman | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Panama Lane 5 miles east of the SR 43 intersection. |
| February 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Tupman | - | A trained weather spotter reported a weak tornado that lasted about 3 minutes. The location was 15 miles northeast of Taft. No damage was found in the area. The tornado was rated an EF0. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Acres | 5.8 miles | 24 | |
| Valley Acres | 7.0 miles | 24 | |
| Strand (historical) | 7.5 miles | 28 | |
| Rio Bravo | 7.6 miles | 27 | |
| Bowerbank | 7.6 miles | 25 | |
| Stebbins | 7.7 miles | 27 | |
| Calders Corner | 7.9 miles | 27 | |
| Stevens | 8.6 miles | 28 |
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 Tupman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1855805 | The 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 1661588. 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.












